From aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org Mon Mar 2 05:47:19 2009 From: aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org (Brad Rellinger) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:47:19 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Battery Capacity? In-Reply-To: <~B49a85cd60004.49aaa8a20000.0003.mml.520518412@jamfsoftware.com> References: <~B49a85cd60004.49aaa8a20000.0003.mml.520518412@jamfsoftware.com> Message-ID: <514B1CC5-DE50-4CD1-B709-EDB887627B53@nwoca.org> Thanks Erin. ---------- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org On Feb 27, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Erin Johnson wrote: > > Hello everyone! I saw this thread and I thought I would drop in on > it. A few weeks ago I wrote a few scripts, one set that reports > battery cycle count and the another that reports the battery charge > capacity. The two sets are as follows: > > BattCyclesRcpt.sh & BattCapRcpt.sh > These two scripts create dummy receipts in the form of: > Battery.CycleCount.x > Battery.ChargeCapacity.y > > Where where x is the Battery's cycle count, and where y is the > battery's charge capacity. The down side to using receipts is that > x and y are going to be variable therefore there will be no way to > efficiently search or scope policies to these values. > > BattCyclesRecon.sh & BattCapRecon.sh > These two scripts set a recon field to an appropriate value. The > following available fields can be set: > -realname The Real Name of the primary user > -email The email address of the primary user > -position The Position (Job Title) of the primary user > -building The text representation of a Building in the JSS > -department The text representation of a Department in the JSS > -phone The Phone number of the primary user > -room The Room that the computer is in > > Instructions on how to specify which recon fields the battery data > is stored in are within the headers of the scripts. As for > searching, depending upon the field you use, you will be able to do > a bit more compared to the first set; however, you will not be able > to perform a range search. > > Now, for the expected disclaimer: these scripts, while they may > make it to the Resource Kit at some point, are explicitly NOT > supported. Use at your own risk, and all. :) > > Hope that helps! > > Erin Johnson > Support Specialist > > erin.johnson at jamfsoftware.com > .................................................................... > JAMF Software > 1011 Washington Ave. S > Suite 350 > Minneapolis, MN 55415 > .................................................................... > Office: (612) 605-6625 > Facsimile: (612) 332-9054 > .................................................................... > US Support: (612) 216-1296 > .................................................................... > http://www.jamfsoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/5f6261dd/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Mon Mar 2 08:14:11 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:14:11 -0600 Subject: [Casper] restricted software Message-ID: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> So, I am just now getting around to updating some restricted software through Casper. I want it to kill and delete skype. Before I was using the find command and a script but I think that flooded my database with a bunch of jibberish in the log files. So now I am just going to use the pre built tools. Which I should have done in the first place. So, you just need to type in exactly what the system sees the process as right? ps -A | grep Skype returns that the system calls the process Skype.app. Now some users run this from any path, could be off a disk image or flash drive. So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly what the process is called right? Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/d5761b2f/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Mon Mar 2 08:24:34 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:24:34 -0500 Subject: [Casper] restricted software In-Reply-To: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: 2009/3/2 Thomas Larkin > So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly what > the process is called right? > Right. I'd enter a message to display to the user, unless you want them to think that the app's failure to launch is a system issue, then you can have the help desk scold them when they call in. :) What I really like is that you can send email notifications and delete the offending app too. This eliminates the need for "search and destroy" scripts for offending apps that you know about and don't want on your systems. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/6d6e09e8/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Mon Mar 2 08:28:22 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:28:22 -0600 Subject: [Casper] restricted software In-Reply-To: References: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49ABB4C6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Well I was using search and destroy scripts using the find command and it killed my logs. I deleted those policies and I shaved off, get this, an epic 5 gigs off of my MySQL database on the JSS. It looks like the find command was indexing every single file on the computer, which is like millions, and even with limited scope search paths it was still too much. The find commands work well for one time execution over ARD admin though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Miles Leacy 03/02/09 10:24 AM >>> 2009/3/2 Thomas Larkin So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly what the process is called right? Right. I'd enter a message to display to the user, unless you want them to think that the app's failure to launch is a system issue, then you can have the help desk scold them when they call in. :) What I really like is that you can send email notifications and delete the offending app too. This eliminates the need for "search and destroy" scripts for offending apps that you know about and don't want on your systems. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/5fb5ec3a/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Mon Mar 2 08:32:17 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:32:17 -0500 Subject: [Casper] restricted software In-Reply-To: <49ABB4C6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49ABB4C6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Assuming your users aren't admins, you could limit your search & destroy scripts to locations that a user has access to (i.e., ~ and /Users/Shared/). If your users are admins, you've got bigger problems. :) ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > Well I was using search and destroy scripts using the find command and it > killed my logs. I deleted those policies and I shaved off, get this, an > epic 5 gigs off of my MySQL database on the JSS. It looks like the find > command was indexing every single file on the computer, which is like > millions, and even with limited scope search paths it was still too much. > > The find commands work well for one time execution over ARD admin though. > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Miles Leacy 03/02/09 10:24 AM >>> > > 2009/3/2 Thomas Larkin > > > > > >> So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly what >> the process is called right? >> >> >> > Right. I'd enter a message to display to the user, unless you want them > to think that the app's failure to launch is a system issue, then you can > have the help desk scold them when they call in. :) > > > What I really like is that you can send email notifications and delete > the offending app too. This eliminates the need for "search and destroy" > scripts for offending apps that you know about and don't want on your > systems. > > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > > www.themacadmin.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/19dce8f8/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Mon Mar 2 08:35:08 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:35:08 -0600 Subject: [Casper] restricted software In-Reply-To: References: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49ABB4C6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49ABB65C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I had to let it search out mounted disk images and thumb drives, and there was one application folder with botched permissions that allowed them write access. They aren't admins but they have the brute force hacker mentality where they just keep trying every possible thing until they get it right. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Miles Leacy 03/02/09 10:32 AM >>> Assuming your users aren't admins, you could limit your search & destroy scripts to locations that a user has access to (i.e., ~ and /Users/Shared/). If your users are admins, you've got bigger problems. :) ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: Well I was using search and destroy scripts using the find command and it killed my logs. I deleted those policies and I shaved off, get this, an epic 5 gigs off of my MySQL database on the JSS. It looks like the find command was indexing every single file on the computer, which is like millions, and even with limited scope search paths it was still too much. The find commands work well for one time execution over ARD admin though. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Miles Leacy 03/02/09 10:24 AM >>> 2009/3/2 Thomas Larkin So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly what the process is called right? Right. I'd enter a message to display to the user, unless you want them to think that the app's failure to launch is a system issue, then you can have the help desk scold them when they call in. :) What I really like is that you can send email notifications and delete the offending app too. This eliminates the need for "search and destroy" scripts for offending apps that you know about and don't want on your systems. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/ab5bed26/attachment.html From rharter at uwsp.edu Mon Mar 2 09:49:35 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 11:49:35 -0600 Subject: [Casper] restricted software In-Reply-To: <49ABB65C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49ABB173.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49ABB4C6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49ABB65C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <741803B0-FEF3-4CFE-B6A0-38BD46037B39@uwsp.edu> I found a bug with the Restricted Software feature that causes the computers to always stay awake since the checking for processes apparently resets the sleep timer. This was an issue for us because of our green initiatives on campus. That being said, I find that feature far superior to search and destroy scripts for a couple of reasons: 1. It doesn't matter where the applications is running from, since it looks for process information, it will spot the process and delete the app. 2. For the most part, a user can't just rename the .app and fool the system (i.e., search and destroy can be fooled if a user renames "LimeWire.app" to "LW.app", since Casper uses process names, thats a little more difficult. One thing that might be interesting to check out is if you can make a launchd item that will monitor the process list and be started up if a process with a certain name, similar to how it can be notified on folder change. This would eliminate polling and maybe fix the sleep issue, but I haven't looked at the man page enough to see if it can be done. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > I had to let it search out mounted disk images and thumb drives, and > there was one application folder with botched permissions that > allowed them write access. They aren't admins but they have the > brute force hacker mentality where they just keep trying every > possible thing until they get it right. > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Miles Leacy 03/02/09 10:32 AM >>> > Assuming your users aren't admins, you could limit your search & > destroy scripts to locations that a user has access to (i.e., ~ and / > Users/Shared/). > > If your users are admins, you've got bigger problems. :) > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Thomas Larkin > > wrote: > Well I was using search and destroy scripts using the find command > and it killed my logs. I deleted those policies and I shaved off, > get this, an epic 5 gigs off of my MySQL database on the JSS. It > looks like the find command was indexing every single file on the > computer, which is like millions, and even with limited scope search > paths it was still too much. > > The find commands work well for one time execution over ARD admin > though. > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Miles Leacy 03/02/09 10:24 AM >>> > > > 2009/3/2 Thomas Larkin > > > > So Casper will shut down Skype.app but me just listing it exactly > what the process is called right? > > > Right. I'd enter a message to display to the user, unless you want > them to think that the app's failure to launch is a system issue, > then you can have the help desk scold them when they call in. :) > > What I really like is that you can send email notifications and > delete the offending app too. This eliminates the need for "search > and destroy" scripts for offending apps that you know about and > don't want on your systems. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/6aa092fe/attachment.htm From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Mon Mar 2 09:54:12 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 09:54:12 -0800 Subject: [Casper] Check for Open Firmware Message-ID: Is there a way to check if Open Firmware is enabled on managed machines? Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/99088bba/attachment.htm From Rich.Dagel at landor.com Mon Mar 2 12:05:47 2009 From: Rich.Dagel at landor.com (Dagel, Rich) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:05:47 -0800 Subject: [Casper] Unable to uninstall package Message-ID: I have a package (dmg) I want to uninstall on a few computers. I have indexed the package but the option to uninstall still dose not show up. I have tried reindexing and saving the file but have not had any luck. 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From: "Dagel, Rich" Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:05:47 -0800 To: Jamf List Serve Subject: [Casper] Unable to uninstall package I have a package (dmg) I want to uninstall on a few computers. I have indexed the package but the option to uninstall still dose not show up. I have tried reindexing and saving the file but have not had any luck. Rich Dagel Senior Technology Specialist Landor Associates 1001 Front Street San Francisco, CA 94111 United States 415 365 3933 http://www.landor.com Rich.Dagel at landor.com _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/823d645e/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Isn't that how a server/client architecture works? Clients aren't supposed to be able to assign their own permissions... Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090302/f89124cd/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Tue Mar 3 06:08:55 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:08:55 -0600 Subject: [Casper] million dollar question, automate battery updates form Apple? Message-ID: <49ACE597.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> How can I automate this so it requires no user interaction? Anybody? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421 Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/9eca7a72/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Tue Mar 3 06:18:14 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 09:18:14 -0500 Subject: [Casper] million dollar question, automate battery updates form Apple? In-Reply-To: <49ACE597.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49ACE597.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Mar 1 05:22:17 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:22:17 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: 1. Put the BatteryUpdate1.4.pkg into your JSS. 2. Via policy or remote, install the package. As part of the same policy/remote action, force a reboot. I think this might work because the kb says, essentially, that you install the pkg, then on the next reboot, your battery gets updated. In general, you can't automate firmware updates because they require physically interacting with the hardware. Based on my read of this kb article, there's no physical button to press, so this one is at least worth testing. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV =EF=A3=BF Certified System Administrator =EF=A3=BF Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/3 Thomas Larkin > How can I automate this so it requires no user interaction? > > Anybody? > > *http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421* > > Thanks, > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > --00151750da4815900f0464379b66 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Mar 1 05:22:17 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:22:17 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID:
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--00151750da4815900f0464379b66-- From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Tue Mar 3 07:49:21 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:49:21 -0800 Subject: [Casper] =?iso-8859-1?q?million_dollar_question=2C_=09automate_ba?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ttery_updates_form_=09Apple=3F?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If it was that easy, wouldn't the update be installed via Apple SUS? I am actually having a hard time finding a MacBook that requires this update. The couple I've tried so far don't meet the requirements. Chad Miles Leacy on March 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM -0800 wrote: >From that kb article, it sounds like the following *might* work... > > >1. Put the BatteryUpdate1.4.pkg into your JSS. >2. Via policy or remote, install the package. As part of the same >policy/remote action, force a reboot. > > >I think this might work because the kb says, essentially, that you >install the pkg, then on the next reboot, your battery gets updated. > > >In general, you can't automate firmware updates because they require >physically interacting with the hardware. Based on my read of this kb >article, there's no physical button to press, so this one is at least >worth testing. > >---------- >Miles A. Leacy IV > > Certified System Administrator > Certified Trainer >Certified Casper Administrator >---------- >voice: 1-347-277-7321 >[ mailto:miles.leacy at themacadmin.com ]miles.leacy at themacadmin.com >[ http://www.themacadmin.com ]www.themacadmin.com > > > > >2009/3/3 Thomas Larkin <[ mailto:tlarki at kckps.org ]tlarki at kckps.org> > > > > >How can I automate this so it requires no user interaction? > > >Anybody? > > >[ http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421 ]http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421 > > >Thanks, > >___________________________ >Thomas Larkin >TIS Department >KCKPS USD500 >[ mailto:tlarki at kckps.org ]tlarki at kckps.org >blackberry: 913-449-7589 >office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >[ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >[ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/89220f34/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Tue Mar 3 07:55:06 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:55:06 -0500 Subject: [Casper] million dollar question, automate battery updates form Apple? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 2009/3/3 Chad Brewer > If it was that easy, wouldn't the update be installed via Apple SUS? > Maybe, and my initial gut reaction to the question was "it's a firmware update therefore it can't be automated". After reading the kb article and seeing no mention of hardware interaction, I think it's worth a try. It's certainly possible it may not work. Miles Leacy on March 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM -0800 wrote: > From that kb article, it sounds like the following *might* work... > > > 1. Put the BatteryUpdate1.4.pkg into your JSS. > 2. Via policy or remote, install the package. As part of the same > policy/remote action, force a reboot. > > > I think this might work because the kb says, essentially, that you install > the pkg, then on the next reboot, your battery gets updated. > > > In general, you can't automate firmware updates because they require > physically interacting with the hardware. Based on my read of this kb > article, there's no physical button to press, so this one is at least worth > testing. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > Certified System Administrator > Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/3 Thomas Larkin > > > > > How can I automate this so it requires no user interaction? > > > Anybody? > > > *http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421* > > > Thanks, > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/cb6a948a/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Tue Mar 3 08:04:00 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:04:00 -0600 Subject: [Casper] million dollar question, automate battery updates form Apple? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49AD0090.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I just installed it with a local account and it never asked for any user interaction other than authentication. It does require OS X 10.5.6 so you may be able to package it up with a forced reboot and it may in fact work. >>> Miles Leacy 03/03/09 9:55 AM >>> 2009/3/3 Chad Brewer If it was that easy, wouldn't the update be installed via Apple SUS? Maybe, and my initial gut reaction to the question was "it's a firmware update therefore it can't be automated". After reading the kb article and seeing no mention of hardware interaction, I think it's worth a try. It's certainly possible it may not work. Miles Leacy on March 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM -0800 wrote: From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Mar 1 05:22:17 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:22:17 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: 1. Put the BatteryUpdate1.4.pkg into your JSS.=20 2. Via policy or remote, install the package. As part of the same = policy/remote action, force a reboot.=20 I think this might work because the kb says, essentially, that you install = the pkg, then on the next reboot, your battery gets updated.=20 In general, you can't automate firmware updates because they require = physically interacting with the hardware. Based on my read of this kb = article, there's no physical button to press, so this one is at least = worth testing.=20 ----------=20 Miles A. 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I just installed it with a = local account and it never asked for any user interaction other than = authentication.  It does require OS X 10.5.6 so you may be able to = package it up with a forced reboot and it may in fact work.

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I think this might work because the kb says, essentially,= ; that you install the pkg, then on the next reboot, your battery = gets updated.



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--=__Part3810D1E0.1__=-- From jeremymatthews at mac.com Tue Mar 3 12:28:44 2009 From: jeremymatthews at mac.com (Jeremy Matthews) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:28:44 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player Message-ID: <0ACD146B-2788-430F-8B27-A0B46F264729@mac.com> For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses to acknowledge the plugin. I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. Anyone have any history here? Thanks, jeremy From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Tue Mar 3 12:52:46 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:52:46 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: <0ACD146B-2788-430F-8B27-A0B46F264729@mac.com> Message-ID: Any possibility the browser was running during install? On 3/3/09 15:28 , "Jeremy Matthews" wrote: For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses to acknowledge the plugin. I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. Anyone have any history here? Thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/c9d8fd31/attachment.htm From jeremymatthews at mac.com Tue Mar 3 16:02:09 2009 From: jeremymatthews at mac.com (Jeremy Matthews) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:02:09 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1CF8BE55-2EAA-4006-91EE-19A733F09FAD@mac.com> nope! On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Nichols, Jared wrote: > Any possibility the browser was running during install? > > > On 3/3/09 15:28 , "Jeremy Matthews" wrote: > > For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not > using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses > to acknowledge the plugin. > > I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. > > Anyone have any history here? > > Thanks, > jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/57eff12b/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue Mar 3 16:10:15 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:10:15 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: <1CF8BE55-2EAA-4006-91EE-19A733F09FAD@mac.com> References: <1CF8BE55-2EAA-4006-91EE-19A733F09FAD@mac.com> Message-ID: <934562B7-FD42-4E2E-8FE5-3639E4FE83D2@uwec.edu> I know the problem! It starts with an AD and ends with a BE! If Safari doesnt see something that is odd. If it was other browsers I'd say make sure it has a higher priority at imaging. However, if you are pushing with remote or a policy I'm not sure. You make me paranoid now to check it again. What version are trying to install? Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" > wrote: nope! On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Nichols, Jared wrote: Any possibility the browser was running during install? On 3/3/09 15:28 , "Jeremy Matthews" <jeremymatthews at mac.com> wrote: For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses to acknowledge the plugin. I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. Anyone have any history here? Thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/1365f145/attachment.htm From john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us Tue Mar 3 16:16:16 2009 From: john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us (John Wetter) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:16:16 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: <934562B7-FD42-4E2E-8FE5-3639E4FE83D2@uwec.edu> Message-ID: We've been installing Flash Player 10 using the pkg without issues. We run it as a startup item to ensure the browsers aren't open. -John On 3/3/09 6:10 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: I know the problem! It starts with an AD and ends with a BE! If Safari doesnt see something that is odd. If it was other browsers I'd say make sure it has a higher priority at imaging. However, if you are pushing with remote or a policy I'm not sure. You make me paranoid now to check it again. What version are trying to install? Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" wrote: nope! On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Nichols, Jared wrote: Any possibility the browser was running during install? On 3/3/09 15:28 , "Jeremy Matthews" > wrote: For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses to acknowledge the plugin. I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. Anyone have any history here? Thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/0b50867b/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue Mar 3 16:21:38 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:21:38 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7815771C-87D7-47E8-8EDA-A8AF33584879@uwec.edu> There may be some apps that require someone be logged in at install, at least in Adobes case. This is being found possibly in CS4 with Photoshop and InDesign, but I can't confirm that. Try it while someone is logged in and see what happens? Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:16 PM, "John Wetter" > wrote: We?ve been installing Flash Player 10 using the pkg without issues. We run it as a startup item to ensure the browsers aren?t open. -John On 3/3/09 6:10 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote: I know the problem! It starts with an AD and ends with a BE! If Safari doesnt see something that is odd. If it was other browsers I'd say make sure it has a higher priority at imaging. However, if you are pushing with remote or a policy I'm not sure. You make me paranoid now to check it again. What version are trying to install? Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" <jeremymatthews at mac.com> wrote: nope! On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Nichols, Jared wrote: Any possibility the browser was running during install? On 3/3/09 15:28 , "Jeremy Matthews" <jeremymatthews at mac.com <mailto:jeremymatthews at mac.com> > wrote: For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses to acknowledge the plugin. I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. Anyone have any history here? Thanks, jeremy _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper <http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper> --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/93b4cf46/attachment.htm From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Tue Mar 3 19:59:52 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:59:52 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: <0ACD146B-2788-430F-8B27-A0B46F264729@mac.com> Message-ID: On 3/3/09 2:28 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" wrote: > For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not > using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses > to acknowledge the plugin. > > I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. > > Anyone have any history here? I've got the latest Flash Player installing just fine with Casper 6.01. With all .pkg installers I cache them first and then install all cached packages. I do all this with a login policy to ensure applications aren't running. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue Mar 3 20:05:01 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:05:01 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Login policy...so a user is essentially logged in when yours runs. Interesting. Craig E On 3/3/09 9:59 PM, "Smith, William" wrote: On 3/3/09 2:28 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" wrote: > For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not > using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser refuses > to acknowledge the plugin. > > I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. > > Anyone have any history here? I've got the latest Flash Player installing just fine with Casper 6.01. With all .pkg installers I cache them first and then install all cached packages. I do all this with a login policy to ensure applications aren't running. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090303/c1dfbc0c/attachment.html From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Wed Mar 4 05:47:34 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:47:34 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Adobe Flash Player In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 3/3/09 10:05 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: > Login policy...so a user is essentially logged in when yours runs. > Interesting. I do 99% of my software pushes as login policies. This guarantees the machine is up and running and that the software gets installed before the user sees his Desktop. It requires setting the preference in the JSS Admin section to not allow the login to complete until all the policies have run. Also, if someone's waiting for an update then all I have to tell him is "Log out and log in again." Bigger pushes such as OS updates take longer and require restarts. I'll handle those by caching them ahead of time and then scheduling an install or creating a log out policy. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From ric.getter at pcc.edu Wed Mar 4 07:56:03 2009 From: ric.getter at pcc.edu (Ric Getter) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 07:56:03 -0800 Subject: [Casper] Battery Capacity? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002f01c99ce1$b8ef8790$2ace96b0$@getter@pcc.edu> Brad, If you don't mind adding a third-party tool, there's a command line application called batterystat 1.1 (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27793) that's pretty good at monitoring battery conditions (including cycle counts). It provided some helpful evidence when I was getting some bad cells from a third-party vendor for my personal laptop. Ric -- Ric Getter Portland Community College/Sylvania Coordinator, Computer Resource Center (503)977-8036 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Brad Rellinger Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 4:37 AM To: Jamf List Serve Subject: [Casper] Battery Capacity? Hello, 2 Questions: 1) In JSS, for each computer, there is a entry called "Battery Capacity" -- what exactly is this? It shows any where from 98% - 109% 2) Is there anywhere that it collects "Cycle count" for the installed battery? Thanks ---------- Brad Rell div> Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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What version are trying > to install? > > Craig Ernst > UW-Eau Claire > (715) 836-3639 > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 3, 2009, at 6:02 PM, "Jeremy Matthews" > wrote: > >> nope! >> >> On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Nichols, Jared wrote: >> >>> Any possibility the browser was running during install? >>> >>> >>> On 3/3/09 15:28 , "Jeremy Matthews" wrote: >>> >>> For some odd reason I can install Flash via ARD and locally, but not >>> using Casper....well, it actually installs, but every browser >>> refuses >>> to acknowledge the plugin. >>> >>> I've checked permissions and structure...everything seems OK. >>> >>> Anyone have any history here? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> jeremy >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Casper mailing list >>> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Jared F. Nichols >>> Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations >>> Information Services Department >>> MIT Lincoln Laboratory >>> 244 Wood Street >>> Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 >>> 781.981.5436 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090304/85adc232/attachment.html From kpolice at ctsd.k12.nj.us Wed Mar 4 10:52:25 2009 From: kpolice at ctsd.k12.nj.us (Kimberly Police) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:52:25 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Imaging vs remote Message-ID: I have a timing question.... I am going to be imaging teacher laptops - I can wipe them clean and have created all my packages to reinstall. When I image one - or two - or even three at a time it takes about 20 minutes start to finish - for the image process But today I am pushing out one package (that is included in my configuration for teacher machines) to a group of 26 laptops. It has been working for over an hour - is this difference in time normal? I am using Casper Remote to push out the one package- is this a mistake - should I be doing it a different way??? When I image I netboot each machine - is it better to set up auto run data to just include the single package and then netboot - does that work? Is it simply that I am working with a larger number of machines 3 vs 26 Or is it quicker to do a clean install - block copy? I am just trying to plan accordingly to deploy the image to groups of teachers - and I'm trying to determine how many I can do at one time - so I know how to schedule my teachers Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kimberly J. Police District Technician kpolice at ctsd.k12.nj.us "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." ? Orison Swett Marden From tlarki at kckps.org Wed Mar 4 11:53:46 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:53:46 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Imaging vs remote In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49AE87E9.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> What hardware is hosting your image files? Is it an Xserve? Or is it something else you are netbooting into? ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Kimberly Police" 03/04/09 12:52 PM >>> I have a timing question.... I am going to be imaging teacher laptops - I can wipe them clean and have created all my packages to reinstall. When I image one - or two - or even three at a time it takes about 20 minutes start to finish - for the image process But today I am pushing out one package (that is included in my configuration for teacher machines) to a group of 26 laptops. It has been working for over an hour - is this difference in time normal? I am using Casper Remote to push out the one package- is this a mistake - should I be doing it a different way??? When I image I netboot each machine - is it better to set up auto run data to just include the single package and then netboot - does that work? Is it simply that I am working with a larger number of machines 3 vs 26 Or is it quicker to do a clean install - block copy? I am just trying to plan accordingly to deploy the image to groups of teachers - and I'm trying to determine how many I can do at one time - so I know how to schedule my teachers Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kimberly J. Police District Technician kpolice at ctsd.k12.nj.us "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." ? Orison Swett Marden _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From tlarki at kckps.org Wed Mar 4 18:06:15 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:06:15 -0600 Subject: [Casper] million dollar question, automate battery updates form Apple? Message-ID: <49AEDF36020000390000A08C@gwoes4.kckps.org> Well, While it does install just fine and can be deployed by Casper it does not actually change the firmware version of the battery. I did a before and after comparison of: system_profile SPPowerDataType | grep Firmware both times it reported back version 0110. So, I am not sure how well this battery update even works. Apple knows about it and they are looking into it. I had a script written that would check the batteries firmware version and if it was the version that needed updating it would trigger a custom trigger Casper policy to install the battery update and then reboot the machine. However, since the firmware version is not being updated this won't help my policy run as smoothly as I hoped. So holding off just yet to see where the update goes. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" 03/03/09 10:08 AM >>> I just installed it with a local account and it never asked for any user interaction other than authentication. It does require OS X 10.5.6 so you may be able to package it up with a forced reboot and it may in fact work. >>> Miles Leacy 03/03/09 9:55 AM >>> 2009/3/3 Chad Brewer If it was that easy, wouldn't the update be installed via Apple SUS? Maybe, and my initial gut reaction to the question was "it's a firmware update therefore it can't be automated". After reading the kb article and seeing no mention of hardware interaction, I think it's worth a try. It's certainly possible it may not work. Miles Leacy on March 3, 2009 at 6:18 AM -0800 wrote: From bogus@does.not.exist.com Sun Mar 1 05:22:17 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:22:17 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: 1. Put the BatteryUpdate1.4.pkg into your JSS.=20 2. Via policy or remote, install the package. As part of the same = policy/remote action, force a reboot.=20 I think this might work because the kb says, essentially, that you install = the pkg, then on the next reboot, your battery gets updated.=20 In general, you can't automate firmware updates because they require = physically interacting with the hardware. Based on my read of this kb = article, there's no physical button to press, so this one is at least = worth testing.=20 ----------=20 Miles A. Leacy IV=20 Certified System Administrator=20 Certified Trainer=20 Certified Casper Administrator=20 ----------=20 voice: 1-347-277-7321=20 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com=20 www.themacadmin.com=20 2009/3/3 Thomas Larkin <=20 tlarki at kckps.org=20 >=20 How can I automate this so it requires no user interaction?=20 Anybody?=20 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3421=20 Thanks,=20 ___________________________=20 Thomas Larkin=20 TIS Department=20 KCKPS USD500=20 tlarki at kckps.org=20 blackberry: 913-449-7589=20 office: 913-627-0351=20 _______________________________________________=20 Casper mailing list=20 Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com=20 http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper=20 _______________________________________________=20 Casper mailing list=20 Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com=20 http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper=20 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 5 05:35:31 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:35:31 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Remote Control Message-ID: Hi- I see that you can ask users if they want to allow remote control of their system, but is there any way to indicate to them that full control has been returned to them? I imagine this may be a limitation of VNC and I may need to look at ARD for the best solution for remote control. Thanks! j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/80f33445/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Thu Mar 5 05:59:39 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:59:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Remote Control In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Jared, "Best solution" depends on what your requirements are. ARD gives you the status bar icon, but Casper VNC gives you logging, and the security of not having the service running all the time, only when called for. Notification on remote control exit would be a fine feature request. In the meantime, you could probably use an Applesscript, shell script or launch daemon to detect when VNC closes and display a dialog. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/5 Nichols, Jared > Hi- > > I see that you can ask users if they want to allow remote control of their > system, but is there any way to indicate to them that full control has been > returned to them? I imagine this may be a limitation of VNC and I may need > to look at ARD for the best solution for remote control. > > Thanks! > > j > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/be719927/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 5 06:00:05 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:00:05 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Remote Control In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi Jared, No there is no indication to the end-user that you've left the building, but you could use Casper Remote to flash a message on their screen immediately following as a work around. I'm not really sure if you are assuming this is when you aren't speaking to the other person on the phone and just tell them you're off? Or if you wanted something like ARD that I believe has indicators in the menu bar, etc. In the meantime... On the Reboot tab change the reboot options to Do not reboot, edit the reboot options message, and check the box display message if not rebooting. Fortunately, I haven't run into the part where you want to remote work on people's systems and they kind of freak out because there is no indication at all that someone is connected...even if the technician is set for prompting the end-user. Craig E On 3/5/09 7:35 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Hi- I see that you can ask users if they want to allow remote control of their system, but is there any way to indicate to them that full control has been returned to them? I imagine this may be a limitation of VNC and I may need to look at ARD for the best solution for remote control. Thanks! j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/9705cc04/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 5 10:12:11 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:12:11 -0600 Subject: [Casper] self service command to mount share as current user? Message-ID: <49AFC19B.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I am looking at the jamf mount command and I want it to map a certain share via self service as the current logged in user. However, I want it to wait for the user to input their password, then once it mounts the share I want it to launch an application that has to read a db file off of that share. I would like to do this in all one fell swoop the user just clicks on the policy, inputs their password and they are done. Also, is there a way to do secure send commands with the send command option in the JSS for policies? I would like to use that function more but not have it leave traces in the log files of what commands I send. Is that possible? ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/03c8d749/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 5 10:30:36 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:30:36 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART status Message-ID: Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of "is not" verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/c41a33d5/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 5 10:30:36 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:30:36 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART status Message-ID: Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of "is not" verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/c41a33d5/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Thu Mar 5 10:49:12 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:49:12 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART status In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dummy receipts? ...and yes. That is my answer for everything. Well, almost. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/5 Nichols, Jared > Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just > the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image > mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of ?is not? verified will get > tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? > > j > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/742fabbf/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 5 10:45:04 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:45:04 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SMART status In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I think I may have it, but I need a sanity check. How's this look? I don't think I'm not familiar enough with SMART to know what not to look for J [cid:3319105504_1136364] On 3/5/09 13:30 , "Nichols, Jared" wrote: Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of "is not" verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/5 Nichols, Jared Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of ?is not? verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/5 Nichols, Jared Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of ?is not? verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? j --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper

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Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/5 Nichols, Jared > Is there a good way to make a smart group based on SMART status of > just the boot drive? I can do the smart status, but if someone has > a disk image mounted or external disk mounted, my flag of ?is > not? verified will get tripped. Is it limitable to the boot drive? > > j > --- > Jared F. Nichols > Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations > Information Services Department > MIT Lincoln Laboratory > 244 Wood Street > Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 > 781.981.5436 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > This transmission is intended solely for the person or organization > to whom it is addressed and it may contain privileged and > confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you > should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If > you believe you received this transmission in error please notify > the sender. > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090305/8cd836f8/attachment.htm From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Fri Mar 6 06:11:32 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:11:32 +0000 Subject: [Casper] load balancing distribution points Message-ID: <49B12F14.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Hi Peps I am now testing multiple distribution points, up to now I have only had 1 JSS server but i am testing out 2 brand new xserves to test a possible new setup. I have setup server 1 as a JSS and Distribution point I have setup server 2 as a Distribution point Then I set server 1 as the master with server 2 as its failover and ticked the enable automatic load balancing. In the JSS i can connect to both servers and in Casper admin both show up in the servers side bar. They sync using rsync fine. I can also image macs from both servers by setting the server in the autorun details. Howver how do I get the load balancing working for the autorun, I have ticked the load balancing option in the Management Preferences section of the JSS. But in the autorun details i have to select server 1 or server 2. If i use Casper Remote is load balances the servers fine. what am i missing? regards Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090306/4dea5c9d/attachment.htm From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Mon Mar 9 09:50:37 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:50:37 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Casper NetInstall creator Message-ID: Any tips on creating a Casper NetInstall image? I'm using their NetInstall Image creator 2.02. I was hoping this tool would be build a NetInstall image similar to how NetRestore does, but this doesn't seem to be the case. 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I know this has been discussed a bit before but in digging around the KB and the resource kit I can find it in use but would like to review an documentation available. I've got to make some scripts to deal with some imaging issues we had previously and being able to cycle through all the existing users would be of great help. Thanks folks, I'm sure I'm missing something easy. Still adjusting to this daylight savings time thing can't get the brain working right this week. -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist ISD 196 Apple Valley, Eagan, Rosemount dustin.dorey at district196.org 952|423|7971 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090310/4a26a2d2/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Tue Mar 10 07:20:04 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:20:04 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Using $1, $2, $3 etc... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Casper Suite Documentation doesn't explicitly state this, but it implies the values of these variables on page 170. $1 = Mount point of the target drive. This is / if you're booted to the target or /Volumes/targetDrive if you're not booted to it. $2 = the computer name $3 = the current user's shortname. Note that this is not a loop, and $3 doesn't mean "do this to all users". If you use $3 in a script that is used in a login or logout policy, or a Casper Remote action that is run while a client is logged in, that $3 will equal the current user's username. If no one is logged in, I believe $3 will be empty. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/10 Dorey, Dustin > Does anyone know if there is documentation anywhere on Using $1, $2, $3 > in scripts to cycle through the users etc?. I know this has been discussed > a bit before but in digging around the KB and the resource kit I can find it > in use but would like to review an documentation available. I?ve got to > make some scripts to deal with some imaging issues we had previously and > being able to cycle through all the existing users would be of great help. > > Thanks folks, I?m sure I?m missing something easy. Still adjusting to > this daylight savings time thing can?t get the brain working right this > week. > > -Dusty- > > > > *Dustin Dorey* > > *Technology Support Cluster Specialist* > > *ISD 196 Apple Valley, Eagan, Rosemount* > > *dustin.dorey at district196.org* > > *952|423|7971* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090310/665839bd/attachment.htm From clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca Tue Mar 10 07:29:44 2009 From: clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca (Clinton Blackmore) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:29:44 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Using $1, $2, $3 etc... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1B5992F5-1749-4066-B5E2-6DF3DBC7B60E@westwind.ab.ca> Page 170 of the Casper Suite 6.0 Documentation.pdf talks about scripts briefly, and refers you to the example scripts. The example scripts that come with Casper (they would've been in the original installation DMG) show that $3 is the current user (although it is only populated if the script is called at login or logoff.) The 'w' and 'who' commands will give the users who are currently logged in. I think who | grep console | cut -d " " -f 1 will probably be the best way to get a list of all users logged in graphically. As for getting a list of all users who have accounts on the machine, if they are all in the Users folder, you could do something like this: for USER in `ls /Users` ; do echo $USER ; done If your users aren't all in the Users folder, you probably have to move on to using dscl, and it'll take a bit more effort. Lastly, Casper has facilities to "Fill User Templates" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU), which helps if you need to create or modify a file for all users. Or, to really make use of the $3 parameter, you should create a script that runs at login, scheduled to run once for each user. I hope this answers your question. Cheers, Clinton On 10-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: > Does anyone know if there is documentation anywhere on Using $1, $2, > $3 in scripts to cycle through the users etc?. I know this has > been discussed a bit before but in digging around the KB and the > resource kit I can find it in use but would like to review an > documentation available. I?ve got to make some scripts to deal with > some imaging issues we had previously and being able to cycle > through all the existing users would be of great help. > Thanks folks, I?m sure I?m missing something easy. Still > adjusting to this daylight savings time thing can?t get the brain > working right this week. > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > ISD 196 Apple Valley, Eagan, Rosemount > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 952|423|7971 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090310/d597dd79/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Tue Mar 10 11:09:12 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:09:12 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Using $1, $2, $3 etc... In-Reply-To: <1B5992F5-1749-4066-B5E2-6DF3DBC7B60E@westwind.ab.ca> References: <1B5992F5-1749-4066-B5E2-6DF3DBC7B60E@westwind.ab.ca> Message-ID: That's the ticket, I was trying to write too much into the script, I'll strip it down and just run once per user on each machine in the policy. We've got an issue with a library file that has the incorrect permissions that needs to be fixed on each user on the machine, including our bound accounts which really is where I hit the wall. Thanks for the responses Miles and Clinton! -Dusty- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:30 AM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Jamf List Serve Subject: Re: [Casper] Using $1, $2, $3 etc... Page 170 of the Casper Suite 6.0 Documentation.pdf talks about scripts briefly, and refers you to the example scripts. The example scripts that come with Casper (they would've been in the original installation DMG) show that $3 is the current user (although it is only populated if the script is called at login or logoff.) The 'w' and 'who' commands will give the users who are currently logged in. I think who | grep console | cut -d " " -f 1 will probably be the best way to get a list of all users logged in graphically. As for getting a list of all users who have accounts on the machine, if they are all in the Users folder, you could do something like this: for USER in `ls /Users` ; do echo $USER ; done If your users aren't all in the Users folder, you probably have to move on to using dscl, and it'll take a bit more effort. Lastly, Casper has facilities to "Fill User Templates" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU), which helps if you need to create or modify a file for all users. Or, to really make use of the $3 parameter, you should create a script that runs at login, scheduled to run once for each user. I hope this answers your question. Cheers, Clinton On 10-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Dorey, Dustin wrote: Does anyone know if there is documentation anywhere on Using $1, $2, $3 in scripts to cycle through the users etc.... I know this has been discussed a bit before but in digging around the KB and the resource kit I can find it in use but would like to review an documentation available. I've got to make some scripts to deal with some imaging issues we had previously and being able to cycle through all the existing users would be of great help. Thanks folks, I'm sure I'm missing something easy. Still adjusting to this daylight savings time thing can't get the brain working right this week. -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist ISD 196 Apple Valley, Eagan, Rosemount dustin.dorey at district196.org 952|423|7971 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090310/d8a5873a/attachment.html From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Wed Mar 11 07:05:50 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:05:50 -0400 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 Message-ID: Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as another user, the "10-uses or register" appears. I called the company and they said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to work, if it is even possible. Let me know if any of you have heard of this app before and/or worked with it. Thanks, - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090311/b088630d/attachment.html From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Wed Mar 11 08:19:26 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:19:26 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? > > If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as > another user, the ?10-uses or register? appears. I called the company and they > said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a > public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out > which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to > work, if it is even possible. We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's directory. Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts as well as place the file in the User Template folder. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Wed Mar 11 08:27:01 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:27:01 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Bill, I think he knew that, I think he was really asking for someone to specifically give him the list of files to keep in the user profile, like asking for a DIFF really. =) Craig E On 3/11/09 10:19 AM, "Smith, William" wrote: On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? > > If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as > another user, the "10-uses or register" appears. I called the company and they > said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a > public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out > which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to > work, if it is even possible. We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's directory. Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts as well as place the file in the User Template folder. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090311/f5e5a520/attachment.html From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Thu Mar 12 02:59:50 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:59:50 +0000 Subject: [Casper] Self Service Message-ID: <49B8DD16.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Hi All, Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to have started happening recently. The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it fails to do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it successfully install the package. This happens every time for ALL self service items, Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/42295b89/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 12 06:30:43 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:30:43 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Self Service In-Reply-To: <49B8DD16.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hi Criss, I've been working with it a bit more than normal lately and it appears to be working fine here. Are you sure you are using a current version of 6.01? Craig E On 3/12/09 4:59 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi All, Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to have started happening recently. The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it fails to do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it successfully install the package. This happens every time for ALL self service items, Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/c589593a/attachment.html From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Thu Mar 12 06:37:19 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:37:19 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Self Service In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I don't get the issue Criss describes, but often I will open Self-Service and the screen is blank. No login for self-service or anonymous options at all. Just a blank window. No rhyme or reason that I can see and usual maintenance to computer doesn't fixt the problem. -Nathaniel Re: [Casper] Self Service Ernst, Craig S. to: Criss Myers, Casper List 03/12/09 08:22 AM Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com Hi Criss, I've been working with it a bit more than normal lately and it appears to be working fine here. Are you sure you are using a current version of 6.01? Craig E On 3/12/09 4:59 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi All, Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to have started happening recently. The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it fails to do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it successfully install the package. This happens every time for ALL self service items, Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Thu Mar 12 08:23:08 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:23:08 -0400 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 References: Message-ID: yes, i created the package using composer, i know exactly what two files it generates: if the user opens the app, it throws a plist inside user's prefs folder as well as a registration (hidden) file in the same location. I did check the FUT and FEU boxes, but it only worked for the local 'admin' user-which was the one i used in packaging. Any other user that logs in and launches the app gets the 'please register' pop-up. Now, also, these are AD users... does that make a difference? will new users who login get their user templates filled appropriately? any ideas? am i doing something wrong? thanks! - lauren -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:19 AM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? > > If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as > another user, the ?10-uses or register? appears. I called the company and they > said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a > public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out > which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to > work, if it is even possible. We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's directory. Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts as well as place the file in the User Template folder. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From matt at pennmanor.net Thu Mar 12 08:25:38 2009 From: matt at pennmanor.net (Matthew Butch) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:25:38 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Self Service In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0BDB917C-422F-48FC-989A-DD8F77675045@pennmanor.net> Yeah, we get that as well. Nothing seems to fix it except changing users. I've heard its a known issue, though. Self service will also crashes on us a lot. Hopefully that gets fixed. -Matt On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:37 AM, NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org wrote: > > I don't get the issue Criss describes, but often I will open Self- > Service > and the screen is blank. No login for self-service or anonymous > options at > all. Just a blank window. No rhyme or reason that I can see and usual > maintenance to computer doesn't fixt the problem. > -Nathaniel > > > > > > > Re: [Casper] Self Service > > > Ernst, Craig S. > to: > Criss Myers, Casper List > 03/12/09 > 08:22 AM > > > > > Sent by: > casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Criss, > > I've been working with it a bit more than normal lately and it > appears to > be working fine here. Are you sure you are using a current version > of 6.01? > > Craig E > > > On 3/12/09 4:59 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to > have > started happening recently. > > > > The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it > fails to > do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it > successfully install the package. > > > > This happens every time for ALL self service items, > > > > Criss > > Criss Myers > > Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) > > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 > > LIS Business Support Team > > Library 301 > > University of Central Lancashire > > Preston PR1 2HE > > Ex 5054 > > 01772 895054 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -- Matthew Butch Technology Support Analyst Penn Manor School District 717-872-9500 x 2385 http://www.pennmanor.net Apple Certified Macintosh Technician Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist 10.4 Apple Certified Support Professional 10.5 Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.4 & 10.5 Apple Certified Systems Administrator 10.4 From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 12 08:29:24 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:29:24 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We're all AD driven accounts here and they get user templates. Perhaps the software is bound to hardware during licensing? Does this package work fine on the computer it was built on? This is the case with things like Final Cut Studio and Express and others. There is typically NO way around that unless you specifically purchase a non-hardware binding volume license/copy. Often that isn't available unless you purchase in volume. When you've deployed the package and logged in with an AD user have you verified those two files are in the right location within that newly created profile? I would contact the vendor and ask them if that's the case perhaps? I'm reaching here. Craig E On 3/12/09 10:23 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: yes, i created the package using composer, i know exactly what two files it generates: if the user opens the app, it throws a plist inside user's prefs folder as well as a registration (hidden) file in the same location. I did check the FUT and FEU boxes, but it only worked for the local 'admin' user-which was the one i used in packaging. Any other user that logs in and launches the app gets the 'please register' pop-up. Now, also, these are AD users... does that make a difference? will new users who login get their user templates filled appropriately? any ideas? am i doing something wrong? thanks! - lauren -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:19 AM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? > > If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as > another user, the "10-uses or register" appears. I called the company and they > said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a > public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out > which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to > work, if it is even possible. We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's directory. Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts as well as place the file in the User Template folder. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/497ef189/attachment.htm From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Thu Mar 12 08:53:59 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:53:59 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Shared Volumes Message-ID: Hi Folks- We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, it says "connection failed" and then immediately disconnects you. It's an annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other than on their desktop) they can click Computer. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, (and as you can see, I'm a rookie user. We just got the Suite last week!) lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/1f667a1f/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Thu Mar 12 08:59:33 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:59:33 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Shared Volumes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I've done this. I need to dig through my scripts. I'll get back to you soon. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/12 Nicholas, Lauren > Hi Folks- > > > > We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that > when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, > it says ?connection failed? and then immediately disconnects you. It?s an > annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared > servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other > than on their desktop) they can click Computer. > > > > Is there a way to do this? > > > > Thanks, (and as you can see, I?m a rookie user. We just got the Suite last > week!) > > > > lauren > > * * > > ? > *LAUREN NICHOLAS* > User Support Analyst > > Center for Information Technology ? CIT > > Moravian College > > adjunct prof | graphic design & music > ph. 610 861 1633 > lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:05:53 -0500 Subject: [Casper] correction In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Are you using Composer 7 or an older version of 6? =) If composer seven: * Login with the account you normally create packages with * Configure your finder settings as you desire * Launch Composer 7 * Click New Package * Select User Environment * Click Finder Preferences and click choose... Craig E On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: Correction- I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: "connected servers" and "bonjour computers" and enable "Computer". - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Chad "Nicholas, Lauren" on March 12, 2009 at 8:01 AM -0700 wrote: >Correction- > > > >I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: >?connected servers? and ?bonjour computers? and enable ?Computer?. > > > >- > >lauren > > > >? >LAUREN NICHOLAS >User Support Analyst > >Center for Information Technology ? CIT > >Moravian College > >adjunct prof | graphic design & music >ph. 610 861 1633 >[ fcp://@fc.bend.k12.or.us,%2318810066/Mailbox/lpnicholas at moravian.edu >]lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/224b1787/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Thu Mar 12 09:11:39 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:11:39 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Shared Volumes In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ok, for this, we want to set the "ShowServers" key in com.apple.sidebarlists.plist to No or 0. PlistBuddy -c Set :systemitems:ShowServers 0 /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist Someone may want to double-check my PlistBuddy syntax as I haven't dug up my script, but I recalled the name of the plist, took a Quicklook at it, and put this command together. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Miles Leacy wrote: > I've done this. I need to dig through my scripts. I'll get back to you > soon. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/12 Nicholas, Lauren > >> Hi Folks- >> >> >> >> We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that >> when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, >> it says ?connection failed? and then immediately disconnects you. It?s an >> annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared >> servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other >> than on their desktop) they can click Computer. >> >> >> >> Is there a way to do this? >> >> >> >> Thanks, (and as you can see, I?m a rookie user. We just got the Suite last >> week!) >> >> >> >> lauren >> >> * * >> >> ? >> *LAUREN NICHOLAS* >> User Support Analyst >> >> Center for Information Technology ? CIT >> >> Moravian College >> >> adjunct prof | graphic design & music >> ph. 610 861 1633 >> lpnicholas at moravian.edu >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Craig E On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: Correction- I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: ?connected servers? and ?bonjour computers? and enable ?Computer?. - lauren ? LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology ? CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/28fc5921/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 12 09:16:03 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:16:03 -0500 Subject: [Casper] correction In-Reply-To: <49B8EE28.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Sure you could, but I like using products I buy, too. =) The benefit to the script is it leaves the rest of the values alone so it's good for after the fact changes. We just have it as part of the imaging process as a pack. Craig E On 3/12/09 11:12 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: you can script it out with the defaults write command to the plist it question, and you can use the $3 option to make sure it runs as current user. >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 03/12/09 11:05 AM >>> Are you using Composer 7 or an older version of 6? =) If composer seven: * * * * Login with the account you normally create packages with * * * * * * Configure your finder settings as you desire * * * * * * Launch Composer 7 * * * * * * Click New Package * * * * * * Select User Environment * * * * * * Click Finder Preferences and click choose... * * * Craig E On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: Correction- I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: "connected servers" and "bonjour computers" and enable "Computer". - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/23e36591/attachment.html From Matt.Matsuno at Mattel.com Thu Mar 12 10:45:49 2009 From: Matt.Matsuno at Mattel.com (Matsuno, Matt) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:45:49 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Print and Fax Unlock Message-ID: Hey all, does anyone know of a way we can get users to add printers in 10.5. The preference pane is locked but we did have a work around that no longer works. They just started using tracking software called Equitrac Office here and the users are not able to add printers without an Admin account. It installs EquitracPrinterUtilityX on the root volume of the drive and when you launch it you can enter the Windows print server and will populate with the printer names available. All that works until we close the window and it?ll ask for admin credentials. We only use the AD plug-in without a Mac OD server. There was a way to modify the ?cups.conf? then use an application to add a printer, but having to use this software.... TIA_matt -------------------------------------------------------- This message (including any attachments) is only for the use of the person(s) for whom it is intended. It may contain Mattel confidential and/or trade secret information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not copy, distribute or use this information for any purpose, and you should delete this message and inform the sender immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/85f4eb82/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Thu Mar 12 10:53:36 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:53:36 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Print and Fax Unlock In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There was a thread here on 12/18/2008 where this was discussed. I'll forward you the last message in the thread, which contains the full discussion. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/12 Matsuno, Matt > Hey all, does anyone know of a way we can get users to add printers in > 10.5. The preference pane is locked but we did have a work around that no > longer works. > They just started using tracking software called Equitrac Office here and > the users are not able to add printers without an Admin account. It installs > EquitracPrinterUtilityX on the root volume of the drive and when you > launch it you can enter the Windows print server and will populate with the > printer names available. All that works until we close the window and it?ll > ask for admin credentials. > We only use the AD plug-in without a Mac OD server. > There was a way to modify the ?cups.conf? then use an application to add a > printer, but having to use this software.... > TIA_matt > > ------------------------------ > > This message (including any attachments) is only for the use of the > person(s) for whom it is intended. It may contain Mattel confidential and/or > trade secret information. If you are not the intended recipient, you should > not copy, distribute or use this information for any purpose, and you should > delete this message and inform the sender immediately.** > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/173106fb/attachment.html From rharter at uwsp.edu Thu Mar 12 12:02:02 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:02:02 -0500 Subject: [Casper] correction In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <355C2EC6-EB43-45A7-9EE7-2903F6DA65AA@uwsp.edu> We use Admit Mac as well, unfortunately, and I've seen the same issue. It's because Thursby uses the computer account for authentication, not the user account. Anyway, as far as disabling the features in the sidebar, best way to go IMHO is to use Composer's Finder Prefs option. That's what I use here. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote: > Sure you could, but I like using products I buy, too. =) > > The benefit to the script is it leaves the rest of the values alone > so it?s good for after the fact changes. We just have it as part of > the imaging process as a pack. > > Craig E > > On 3/12/09 11:12 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > > > > you can script it out with the defaults write command to the plist > it question, and you can use the $3 option to make sure it runs as > current user. > > >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 03/12/09 11:05 AM >>> > > > > > Are you using Composer 7 or an older version of 6? =) > > If composer seven: > > > > > Login with the account you normally create packages with > Configure your finder settings as you desire > Launch Composer 7 > Click New Package > Select User Environment > Click Finder Preferences and click choose... > > > > > > > Craig E > > > On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" > wrote: > > > > > > > > Correction- > > I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: > ?connected servers? and ?bonjour computers? and enable ?Computer?. > > - > lauren > > > > > > > ? > LAUREN NICHOLAS > User Support Analyst > Center for Information Technology ? CIT > Moravian College > adjunct prof | graphic design & music > ph. 610 861 1633 > lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/539db309/attachment.htm From ecwade at capousd.org Thu Mar 12 12:04:48 2009 From: ecwade at capousd.org (Wade, Evan C.) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:04:48 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Self Service In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8849EFC485BBB646A2706F0A1C89A58448C469@DIST-WIN-MAIL-8.cusdnet.org> JAMF told us that the blank self service screen is a known issue on 10.4 systems with QuickTime 7.6. However, we installed post-Quicktime updates on a number of systems and self service is again functioning normally. Evan Wade TIS Support Technician - 949-234-5500 Capistrano Unified School District -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of casper-request at list.jamfsoftware.com Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:00 PM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Casper Digest, Vol 27, Issue 9 Send Casper mailing list submissions to casper at list.jamfsoftware.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to casper-request at list.jamfsoftware.com You can reach the person managing the list at casper-owner at list.jamfsoftware.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Casper digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Self Service (Criss Myers) 2. Re: Self Service (Ernst, Craig S.) 3. Re: Self Service (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) 4. Re: SoundStudio3 (Nicholas, Lauren) 5. Re: Self Service (Matthew Butch) 6. Re: SoundStudio3 (Ernst, Craig S.) 7. Shared Volumes (Nicholas, Lauren) 8. Re: Shared Volumes (Miles Leacy) 9. correction (Nicholas, Lauren) 10. Re: correction (Ernst, Craig S.) 11. Re: correction (Chad Brewer) 12. Re: Shared Volumes (Miles Leacy) 13. Re: correction (Thomas Larkin) 14. Re: correction (Ernst, Craig S.) 15. Print and Fax Unlock (Matsuno, Matt) 16. Re: Print and Fax Unlock (Miles Leacy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:59:50 +0000 From: "Criss Myers" Subject: [Casper] Self Service To: Message-ID: <49B8DD16.BB96.0081.0 at uclan.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi All, Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to have started happening recently. The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it fails to do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it successfully install the package. This happens every time for ALL self service items, Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/42295 b89/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:30:43 -0500 From: "Ernst, Craig S." Subject: Re: [Casper] Self Service To: Criss Myers , Casper List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Criss, I've been working with it a bit more than normal lately and it appears to be working fine here. Are you sure you are using a current version of 6.01? Craig E On 3/12/09 4:59 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi All, Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to have started happening recently. The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it fails to do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it successfully install the package. This happens every time for ALL self service items, Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/c5895 93a/attachment.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:37:19 -0500 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Subject: Re: [Casper] Self Service To: "Ernst, Craig S." Cc: Criss Myers , casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com, Casper List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I don't get the issue Criss describes, but often I will open Self-Service and the screen is blank. No login for self-service or anonymous options at all. Just a blank window. No rhyme or reason that I can see and usual maintenance to computer doesn't fixt the problem. -Nathaniel Re: [Casper] Self Service Ernst, Craig S. to: Criss Myers, Casper List 03/12/09 08:22 AM Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com Hi Criss, I've been working with it a bit more than normal lately and it appears to be working fine here. Are you sure you are using a current version of 6.01? Craig E On 3/12/09 4:59 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi All, Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to have started happening recently. The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it fails to do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it successfully install the package. This happens every time for ALL self service items, Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:23:08 -0400 From: "Nicholas, Lauren" Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" yes, i created the package using composer, i know exactly what two files it generates: if the user opens the app, it throws a plist inside user's prefs folder as well as a registration (hidden) file in the same location. I did check the FUT and FEU boxes, but it only worked for the local 'admin' user-which was the one i used in packaging. Any other user that logs in and launches the app gets the 'please register' pop-up. Now, also, these are AD users... does that make a difference? will new users who login get their user templates filled appropriately? any ideas? am i doing something wrong? thanks! - lauren -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:19 AM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? > > If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as > another user, the ?10-uses or register? appears. I called the company and they > said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a > public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out > which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to > work, if it is even possible. We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's directory. Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts as well as place the file in the User Template folder. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:25:38 -0400 From: Matthew Butch Subject: Re: [Casper] Self Service To: Casper List Message-ID: <0BDB917C-422F-48FC-989A-DD8F77675045 at pennmanor.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Yeah, we get that as well. Nothing seems to fix it except changing users. I've heard its a known issue, though. Self service will also crashes on us a lot. Hopefully that gets fixed. -Matt On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:37 AM, NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org wrote: > > I don't get the issue Criss describes, but often I will open Self- > Service > and the screen is blank. No login for self-service or anonymous > options at > all. Just a blank window. No rhyme or reason that I can see and usual > maintenance to computer doesn't fixt the problem. > -Nathaniel > > > > > > > Re: [Casper] Self Service > > > Ernst, Craig S. > to: > Criss Myers, Casper List > 03/12/09 > 08:22 AM > > > > > Sent by: > casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Criss, > > I've been working with it a bit more than normal lately and it > appears to > be working fine here. Are you sure you are using a current version > of 6.01? > > Craig E > > > On 3/12/09 4:59 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Anyone else having issues with Self Service, it only seems to > have > started happening recently. > > > > The first time you click INSTALL on a self service items it > fails to > do anything and just returns to the Home page, the second time it > successfully install the package. > > > > This happens every time for ALL self service items, > > > > Criss > > Criss Myers > > Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) > > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 > > LIS Business Support Team > > Library 301 > > University of Central Lancashire > > Preston PR1 2HE > > Ex 5054 > > 01772 895054 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -- Matthew Butch Technology Support Analyst Penn Manor School District 717-872-9500 x 2385 http://www.pennmanor.net Apple Certified Macintosh Technician Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist 10.4 Apple Certified Support Professional 10.5 Apple Certified Technical Coordinator 10.4 & 10.5 Apple Certified Systems Administrator 10.4 ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:29:24 -0500 From: "Ernst, Craig S." Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 To: "Nicholas, Lauren" , Casper List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" We're all AD driven accounts here and they get user templates. Perhaps the software is bound to hardware during licensing? Does this package work fine on the computer it was built on? This is the case with things like Final Cut Studio and Express and others. There is typically NO way around that unless you specifically purchase a non-hardware binding volume license/copy. Often that isn't available unless you purchase in volume. When you've deployed the package and logged in with an AD user have you verified those two files are in the right location within that newly created profile? I would contact the vendor and ask them if that's the case perhaps? I'm reaching here. Craig E On 3/12/09 10:23 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: yes, i created the package using composer, i know exactly what two files it generates: if the user opens the app, it throws a plist inside user's prefs folder as well as a registration (hidden) file in the same location. I did check the FUT and FEU boxes, but it only worked for the local 'admin' user-which was the one i used in packaging. Any other user that logs in and launches the app gets the 'please register' pop-up. Now, also, these are AD users... does that make a difference? will new users who login get their user templates filled appropriately? any ideas? am i doing something wrong? thanks! - lauren -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:19 AM To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? > > If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as > another user, the "10-uses or register" appears. I called the company and they > said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in a > public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure out > which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this to > work, if it is even possible. We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's directory. Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts as well as place the file in the User Template folder. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/497ef 189/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:53:59 -0400 From: "Nicholas, Lauren" Subject: [Casper] Shared Volumes To: Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Folks- We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, it says "connection failed" and then immediately disconnects you. It's an annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other than on their desktop) they can click Computer. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, (and as you can see, I'm a rookie user. We just got the Suite last week!) lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/1f667 a1f/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:59:33 -0400 From: Miles Leacy Subject: Re: [Casper] Shared Volumes To: "Nicholas, Lauren" Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I've done this. I need to dig through my scripts. I'll get back to you soon. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/12 Nicholas, Lauren > Hi Folks- > > > > We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that > when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, > it says ?connection failed? and then immediately disconnects you. It?s an > annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared > servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other > than on their desktop) they can click Computer. > > > > Is there a way to do this? > > > > Thanks, (and as you can see, I?m a rookie user. We just got the Suite last > week!) > > > > lauren > > * * > > ? > *LAUREN NICHOLAS* > User Support Analyst > > Center for Information Technology ? CIT > > Moravian College > > adjunct prof | graphic design & music > ph. 610 861 1633 > lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Subject: Re: [Casper] correction To: "Nicholas, Lauren" , Casper List Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Are you using Composer 7 or an older version of 6? =) If composer seven: * Login with the account you normally create packages with * Configure your finder settings as you desire * Launch Composer 7 * Click New Package * Select User Environment * Click Finder Preferences and click choose... Craig E On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: Correction- I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: "connected servers" and "bonjour computers" and enable "Computer". - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/e0dec ab8/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:10:02 -0700 From: "Chad Brewer" Subject: Re: [Casper] correction To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I wrote a login script that uses plist buddy to modify the user's com.apple.sidebarlists.plist file. Right now, I just have it turning off bonjour computers, but you can easily modify it to do Connected Servers as well. /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add networkbrowser:CustomListProperties:com.apple.NetworkBrowser.bonjourEnab led bool" /Users/"$3"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist The way this is setup it turns it off by default, but if a user turns it on it will stay on. Chad "Nicholas, Lauren" on March 12, 2009 at 8:01 AM -0700 wrote: >Correction- > > > >I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: >?connected servers? and ?bonjour computers? and enable ?Computer?. > > > >- > >lauren > > > >? >LAUREN NICHOLAS >User Support Analyst > >Center for Information Technology ? CIT > >Moravian College > >adjunct prof | graphic design & music >ph. 610 861 1633 >[ fcp://@fc.bend.k12.or.us,%2318810066/Mailbox/lpnicholas at moravian.edu >]lpnicholas at moravian.edu > > > >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I need to dig through my scripts. I'll get back to you > soon. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/12 Nicholas, Lauren > >> Hi Folks- >> >> >> >> We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that >> when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, >> it says ?connection failed? and then immediately disconnects you. It?s an >> annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared >> servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other >> than on their desktop) they can click Computer. >> >> >> >> Is there a way to do this? >> >> >> >> Thanks, (and as you can see, I?m a rookie user. We just got the Suite last >> week!) >> >> >> >> lauren >> >> * * >> >> ? >> *LAUREN NICHOLAS* >> User Support Analyst >> >> Center for Information Technology ? CIT >> >> Moravian College >> >> adjunct prof | graphic design & music >> ph. 610 861 1633 >> lpnicholas at moravian.edu >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/0d741 8eb/attachment-0001.html ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:12:40 -0500 From: "Thomas Larkin" Subject: Re: [Casper] correction To: "Casper List" , "Lauren Nicholas" , "Craig S. Ernst" Message-ID: <49B8EE28.7141.0039.0 at kckps.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" you can script it out with the defaults write command to the plist it question, and you can use the $3 option to make sure it runs as current user. >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 03/12/09 11:05 AM >>> Are you using Composer 7 or an older version of 6? =) If composer seven: Login with the account you normally create packages with Configure your finder settings as you desire Launch Composer 7 Click New Package Select User Environment Click Finder Preferences and click choose... Craig E On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: Correction- I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: ?connected servers? and ?bonjour computers? and enable ?Computer?. - lauren ? LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology ? 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Craig E On 3/12/09 11:12 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: you can script it out with the defaults write command to the plist it question, and you can use the $3 option to make sure it runs as current user. >>> "Ernst, Craig S." 03/12/09 11:05 AM >>> Are you using Composer 7 or an older version of 6? =) If composer seven: * * * * Login with the account you normally create packages with * * * * * * Configure your finder settings as you desire * * * * * * Launch Composer 7 * * * * * * Click New Package * * * * * * Select User Environment * * * * * * Click Finder Preferences and click choose... * * * Craig E On 3/12/09 11:01 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: Correction- I would like to be able to go into Finder Preferences and disable: "connected servers" and "bonjour computers" and enable "Computer". - lauren - LAUREN NICHOLAS User Support Analyst Center for Information Technology - CIT Moravian College adjunct prof | graphic design & music ph. 610 861 1633 lpnicholas at moravian.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The preference pane is locked but we did have a work around that no > longer works. > They just started using tracking software called Equitrac Office here and > the users are not able to add printers without an Admin account. It installs > EquitracPrinterUtilityX on the root volume of the drive and when you > launch it you can enter the Windows print server and will populate with the > printer names available. All that works until we close the window and it?ll > ask for admin credentials. > We only use the AD plug-in without a Mac OD server. > There was a way to modify the ?cups.conf? then use an application to add a > printer, but having to use this software.... > TIA_matt > > ------------------------------ > > This message (including any attachments) is only for the use of the > person(s) for whom it is intended. It may contain Mattel confidential and/or > trade secret information. 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This communication may contain non-public, confidential, or legally privileged information intended for the sole use of the designated recipient(s). The unlawful interception, use or disclosure of such information is strictly prohibited under 18 USCA 2511 and any applicable laws. From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Thu Mar 12 12:25:57 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:25:57 -0500 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I?ve seen one or two applications that do bind to hardware. Annoying as heck! You might consider creating a separate license package for each machine. Yes, you'll have to manually install the software on each machine but then you could at least use Casper to deploy the license files to the rest of the users. Optionally, if you're familiar with AppleScript or shell scripting then you could optionally run a script on each machine just after installation that copies the files from the current user to the other local users. This would be easier and faster to do, IMHO, than packaging. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 On 3/12/09 10:29 AM, "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: > We?re all AD driven accounts here and they get user templates. > > Perhaps the software is bound to hardware during licensing? Does this package > work fine on the computer it was built on? This is the case with things like > Final Cut Studio and Express and others. There is typically NO way around that > unless you specifically purchase a non-hardware binding volume license/copy. > Often that isn?t available unless you purchase in volume. > > When you?ve deployed the package and logged in with an AD user have you > verified those two files are in the right location within that newly created > profile? > > I would contact the vendor and ask them if that?s the case perhaps? I?m > reaching here. > > On 3/12/09 10:23 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > >> yes, i created the package using composer, i know exactly what two files it >> generates: if the user opens the app, it throws a plist inside user's prefs >> folder as well as a registration (hidden) file in the same location. I did >> check the FUT and FEU boxes, but it only worked for the local 'admin' >> user-which was the one i used in packaging. Any other user that logs in and >> launches the app gets the 'please register' pop-up. >> >> Now, also, these are AD users... does that make a difference? will new users >> who login get their user templates filled appropriately? >> >> any ideas? am i doing something wrong? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com >> [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William >> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:19 AM >> To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 >> >> On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: >> >>> Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? >>> >>> If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as >>> another user, the ?10-uses or register? appears. I called the company and >>> they >>> said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in >>> a >>> public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure >>> out >>> which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this >>> to >>> work, if it is even possible. >> >> We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove >> a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill >> Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's >> directory. >> >> Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what >> happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file >> (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. >> >> Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a >> directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The >> "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during >> installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts >> as well as place the file in the User Template folder. From lpnicholas at moravian.edu Thu Mar 12 13:00:14 2009 From: lpnicholas at moravian.edu (Nicholas, Lauren) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:00:14 -0400 Subject: [Casper] SoundStudio3 References: Message-ID: Funny thing i tried--and it worked: I installed SoundStudio3 and then set my clock back to like 2005. Then i launched the app, put in the proper registration info, and Quit. Then i locked both the SoundStudio.app and the plist it created (in ~/Library/Preferences). then i set my clock back to the current date, had composer do an end snapshot, pushed it out with FUT and FEU and it seems to be working like a charm. is that... legal? whoops :) -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:26 PM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 I?ve seen one or two applications that do bind to hardware. Annoying as heck! You might consider creating a separate license package for each machine. Yes, you'll have to manually install the software on each machine but then you could at least use Casper to deploy the license files to the rest of the users. Optionally, if you're familiar with AppleScript or shell scripting then you could optionally run a script on each machine just after installation that copies the files from the current user to the other local users. This would be easier and faster to do, IMHO, than packaging. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 On 3/12/09 10:29 AM, "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: > We?re all AD driven accounts here and they get user templates. > > Perhaps the software is bound to hardware during licensing? Does this package > work fine on the computer it was built on? This is the case with things like > Final Cut Studio and Express and others. There is typically NO way around that > unless you specifically purchase a non-hardware binding volume license/copy. > Often that isn?t available unless you purchase in volume. > > When you?ve deployed the package and logged in with an AD user have you > verified those two files are in the right location within that newly created > profile? > > I would contact the vendor and ask them if that?s the case perhaps? I?m > reaching here. > > On 3/12/09 10:23 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: > >> yes, i created the package using composer, i know exactly what two files it >> generates: if the user opens the app, it throws a plist inside user's prefs >> folder as well as a registration (hidden) file in the same location. I did >> check the FUT and FEU boxes, but it only worked for the local 'admin' >> user-which was the one i used in packaging. Any other user that logs in and >> launches the app gets the 'please register' pop-up. >> >> Now, also, these are AD users... does that make a difference? will new users >> who login get their user templates filled appropriately? >> >> any ideas? am i doing something wrong? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com >> [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Smith, William >> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:19 AM >> To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> Subject: Re: [Casper] SoundStudio3 >> >> On 3/11/09 9:05 AM, "Nicholas, Lauren" wrote: >> >>> Has anyone had to deploy the app SoundStudio3 by FreeVerse? >>> >>> If I type in the registration information for one user, log out and login as >>> another user, the ?10-uses or register? appears. I called the company and >>> they >>> said that each user has to type in the serial. That is just not feasible in >>> a >>> public lab environment, where it has to be deployed. I am trying to figure >>> out >>> which file(s) to delete from the pkg I am creating in Composer to get this >>> to >>> work, if it is even possible. >> >> We have a font application that works the same way. You don't need to remove >> a file but instead use Casper's "Fill User Template" (FUT) and "Fill >> Existing Users" (FEU) feature to copy the appropriate file to each user's >> directory. >> >> Install your software without launching it. Then use Composer to watch what >> happens when you enter the serial number. Most likely a preference file >> (possibly hidden) is getting created in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. >> >> Take that preference file and package it, making sure to keep it in a >> directory structure such as /Users/install/Library/Preferences. The >> "install" user is a place holder. When you select FUT and FEU during >> installation then Casper will place the file in all existing user accounts >> as well as place the file in the User Template folder. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Thu Mar 12 14:04:32 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:04:32 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Off topic: about your organization Message-ID: This is off topic, so please reply to me off-list. I am working on a project for Mac enterprise sysadmins. I need to put some numbers around the viability of the project, so I'm reaching out to this and some other communities I belong to. If you're willing to answer a few very general questions about your organization and your Mac deployment, it would be a great help to me. Names of people and organizations will be kept confidential unless you give me permission to use names. Thanks in advance for your help! All the best, ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090312/e0b07f51/attachment.htm From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Fri Mar 13 08:18:22 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:18:22 -0400 Subject: [Casper] iLife '09 Installation.. Message-ID: I'm having trouble installing iLife '09.mpkg from Casper. The jamf.log reports that the installer won't install because the system is not 10.5.6 even though it is. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm hoping that this will also install as an iLife upgrade to my systems running iLife '08. I've tried creating a dmg of iLife '09 but it won't install and nothing gets reported in the log about this but I'm assuming it's the same issue. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090313/cd4c0953/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Fri Mar 13 10:48:40 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:48:40 -0400 Subject: [Casper] iLife '09 Installation.. In-Reply-To: References: <,> Message-ID: And what about installing over a netbooted connection? That's how I was hoping to deploy this. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools "Chad Brewer" writes: >I had to do 2 things to make this work. > >1) Remove the ' from the file name before uploading via Casper Admin. > Make it iLife09.mpkg or whatever. > >2) If you are installing with Casper Remote, use the override defaults >option to force AFP. > >Chad > >"John McLaughlin" <[ mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us >]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> on March 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM -0700 >wrote: >I'm having trouble installing iLife '09.mpkg from Casper. The jamf.log >reports that the installer won't install because the system is not 10.5.6 >even though it is. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm hoping that >this will also install as an iLife upgrade to my systems running iLife >'08. I've tried creating a dmg of iLife '09 but it won't install and >nothing gets reported in the log about this but I'm assuming it's the >same issue. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >[ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >[ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090313/27b812a6/attachment.htm From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Fri Mar 13 10:51:43 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:51:43 -0700 Subject: [Casper] iLife '09 Installation.. In-Reply-To: References: <,> < > <,> Message-ID: What method are you using to try and install the pkg, Casper Imaging, Casper Remote, JSS? "John McLaughlin" on March 13, 2009 at 9:48 AM -0700 wrote: >And what about installing over a netbooted connection? That's how I was >hoping to deploy this. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools > > >"Chad Brewer" <[ mailto:chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us >]chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us> writes: >I had to do 2 things to make this work. > >1) Remove the ' from the file name before uploading via Casper Admin. > Make it iLife09.mpkg or whatever. > >2) If you are installing with Casper Remote, use the override defaults >option to force AFP. > >Chad > >"John McLaughlin" <[ mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us >]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> on March 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM -0700 >wrote: >I'm having trouble installing iLife '09.mpkg from Casper. The jamf.log >reports that the installer won't install because the system is not 10.5.6 >even though it is. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm hoping that >this will also install as an iLife upgrade to my systems running iLife >'08. I've tried creating a dmg of iLife '09 but it won't install and >nothing gets reported in the log about this but I'm assuming it's the >same issue. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >[ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >[ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >_______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090313/e33729e7/attachment.html From chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us Fri Mar 13 11:06:58 2009 From: chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us (Chad Brewer) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:06:58 -0700 Subject: [Casper] iLife '09 Installation.. In-Reply-To: References: <,> <,> < > < > <,> <,> < > <,> <,> <,> Message-ID: Not sure if you can force Casper Imaging to use AFP. I know when I push that package via Casper Remote, it will fail unless I force AFP. By default its attempting to use HTTP. You could change that distribution point so it doesn't use HTTP. Chad "John McLaughlin" on March 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM -0700 wrote: >I am attempting to use Casper Imaging over a netbooted volume. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools > > >"Chad Brewer" <[ mailto:chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us >]chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us> writes: >What method are you using to try and install the pkg, Casper Imaging, >Casper Remote, JSS? > > >"John McLaughlin" <[ mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us >]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> on March 13, 2009 at 9:48 AM -0700 >wrote: >And what about installing over a netbooted connection? That's how I was >hoping to deploy this. > >John McLaughlin >Technical Support Specialist >Newton Public Schools > > >"Chad Brewer" <[ mailto:chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us >]chad.brewer at bend.k12.or.us> writes: >I had to do 2 things to make this work. > >1) Remove the ' from the file name before uploading via Casper Admin. > Make it iLife09.mpkg or whatever. > >2) If you are installing with Casper Remote, use the override defaults >option to force AFP. > >Chad > >"John McLaughlin" <[ mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us >]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> on March 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM -0700 >wrote: >I'm having trouble installing iLife '09.mpkg from Casper. The jamf.log >reports that the installer won't install because the system is not 10.5.6 >even though it is. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm hoping that >this will also install as an iLife upgrade to my systems running iLife >'08. 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When I push the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the other application do. Anyone else seen this? 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Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/16 Criss Myers > Hi People, > > Im trying to write some startupitems that well delete themselves after > they have run, Casper's FirstRun script uses the following command > > /bin/rm -rf 'path to folder' > > i have tried this and it doesnt delete itself > > Criss > > Criss Myers > Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 > LIS Business Support Team > Library 301 > University of Central Lancashire > Preston PR1 2HE > Ex 5054 > 01772 895054 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/16 Criss Myers Hi People, Im trying to write some startupitems that well delete themselves after they have run, Casper's FirstRun script uses the following command /bin/rm -rf 'path to folder' i have tried this and it doesnt delete itself Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090316/66f10a7f/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you for your suggestions. ____ Alan G. Ramos McCann Worldgroup 646-865-3699 This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient (or authorized to receive this message for the intended recipient), you may not use, copy, disseminate or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail, and delete the message. Thank you very much. (A) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090316/d96091a1/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Mon Mar 16 12:17:15 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:17:15 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Purging the inventory database? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: You might be able to loop through JSS IDs. I'd have to give this a little more thought. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/16 Ramos, Alan (NYC-ME) > Is there an easy way to quickly purge the entire current inventory > database without destroying all the other items like policies etc? > > I would like to archive the current inventory information and then wipe it > clean and pull a fresh poll from the network of everything live. Thank you > for your suggestions. > > ____ > Alan G. Ramos > McCann Worldgroup > 646-865-3699 > > This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. > Unless you are the intended recipient (or authorized to receive this message > for the intended recipient), you may not use, copy, disseminate or disclose to > anyone the message or any information contained in the message. 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You can assign policies to Computers, computer groups, buildings or departments, and you can assign self service policies to User groups, but id like to be able to assign a self service policy to a particular user for testing. I know i can assign a logon/logoff policy to a user. I can also make an LDAP group (i dont have access to create and edit AD groups) and assign that group to a self service policy, but that adds an extra level of credentials. Is this possible? Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/04f6f455/attachment.html From taugust04.lists at gmail.com Tue Mar 17 07:10:57 2009 From: taugust04.lists at gmail.com (Ted August) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:10:57 -0400 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: <195661AE-1FFE-4EBF-A770-82E60EB564E5@bazmac.co.uk> References: <195661AE-1FFE-4EBF-A770-82E60EB564E5@bazmac.co.uk> Message-ID: <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com> On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Tue Mar 17 07:11:40 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:11:40 -0400 Subject: [Casper] self service In-Reply-To: <49BFABBE.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> References: <49BFABBE.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: I've never tried this, so I'm not sure. However, If your LDAP is bound to your AD (fairly easy to do if your LDAP is OD), you can create an LDAP group that contains AD users. I'd also strongly recommend, as a sysadmin axiom, that one never assigns privileges or attributes to a user account. Using groups keeps the hard-to-track account cruft to a minimum. In this case, I'd create a "self service testing" group, and put your user in it. This way, you don't need to remember that johndoe has self service privileges, and if you want to expand the test, you can add users to the group. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/17 Criss Myers > Hi People, > > Now that i have joined Casper to my Active Directory i can get users to > login to the Self Service tool with their AD credentials, is there a way to > assign a policy to a particular user? > > You can assign policies to Computers, computer groups, buildings or > departments, and you can assign self service policies to User groups, but id > like to be able to assign a self service policy to a particular user for > testing. > > I know i can assign a logon/logoff policy to a user. > > I can also make an LDAP group (i dont have access to create and edit AD > groups) and assign that group to a self service policy, but that adds an > extra level of credentials. > > Is this possible? > > Criss > > Criss Myers > Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 > LIS Business Support Team > Library 301 > University of Central Lancashire > Preston PR1 2HE > Ex 5054 > 01772 895054 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/8c038104/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue Mar 17 07:39:11 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:39:11 -0500 Subject: [Casper] self service In-Reply-To: Message-ID: This is correct. You scope the policy to an AD group of users. Craig E On 3/17/09 9:11 AM, "Miles Leacy" wrote: I've never tried this, so I'm not sure. However, If your LDAP is bound to your AD (fairly easy to do if your LDAP is OD), you can create an LDAP group that contains AD users. I'd also strongly recommend, as a sysadmin axiom, that one never assigns privileges or attributes to a user account. Using groups keeps the hard-to-track account cruft to a minimum. In this case, I'd create a "self service testing" group, and put your user in it. This way, you don't need to remember that johndoe has self service privileges, and if you want to expand the test, you can add users to the group. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/17 Criss Myers Hi People, Now that i have joined Casper to my Active Directory i can get users to login to the Self Service tool with their AD credentials, is there a way to assign a policy to a particular user? You can assign policies to Computers, computer groups, buildings or departments, and you can assign self service policies to User groups, but id like to be able to assign a self service policy to a particular user for testing. I know i can assign a logon/logoff policy to a user. I can also make an LDAP group (i dont have access to create and edit AD groups) and assign that group to a self service policy, but that adds an extra level of credentials. Is this possible? Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/2c217288/attachment.htm From rharter at uwsp.edu Tue Mar 17 07:51:36 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:51:36 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com> References: <195661AE-1FFE-4EBF-A770-82E60EB564E5@bazmac.co.uk> <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com> Message-ID: I have got Adobe CS4 working as a Self Service Policy (which means I can deploy it by any other means as well). I copied everything off of the DVDs (individually for each app) to "/ Library/Application Support/UWSP/" and then used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, which I agree is substandard, to create the xml files, saving them along with the files in that directory. I had toyed around with putting stuff in /tmp but this caused some problems with Casper. Anyway, I then wrote a script like so: #!/bin/bash ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Installer Script # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ AdobeUberInstaller" rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" exit 0 It's not very robust and does no checking, but I haven't had any problems with it so far. Then all you have to do is set the script to run after and make sure the package is installed before it runs. Note: There is also an uninstall script like so: #!/bin/bash ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Uninstaller Script # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ AdobeUberUninstaller" rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" exit 0 As you can see, I've been using these since the 9th of January without any problem, granted we're just letting out Art faculty test it out now so my install base is only about 15. I prefer this to the packaging approach because the installer handles the licensing so my better, IMHO. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Ted August wrote: > On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install >> packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the >> applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then >> dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making >> individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except >> Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I >> push >> the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, >> if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the >> other application do. Anyone else seen this? >> > > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to > the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. > > Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe > Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been > googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other > mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. > I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe > Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable > (and I've let Adobe know!). > > Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 > with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment > toolkit? > > Thanks, > > -- > Ted August > Salve -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, If your LDAP is bound to > your AD (fairly easy to do if your LDAP is OD), you can create an LDAP group > that contains AD users. > > I'd also strongly recommend, as a sysadmin axiom, that one never assigns > privileges or attributes to a user account. Using groups keeps the > hard-to-track account cruft to a minimum. > > In this case, I'd create a "self service testing" group, and put your user > in it. This way, you don't need to remember that johndoe has self service > privileges, and if you want to expand the test, you can add users to the > group. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/17 Criss Myers > > > > > Hi People, > > > > Now that i have joined Casper to my Active Directory i can get users to > login to the Self Service tool with their AD credentials, is there a way to > assign a policy to a particular user? > > > > You can assign policies to Computers, computer groups, buildings or > departments, and you can assign self service policies to User groups, but id > like to be able to assign a self service policy to a particular user for > testing. > > > > I know i can assign a logon/logoff policy to a user. > > > > I can also make an LDAP group (i dont have access to create and edit AD > groups) and assign that group to a self service policy, but that adds an > extra level of credentials. > > > > Is this possible? > > > > Criss > > Criss Myers > Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 > LIS Business Support Team > Library 301 > University of Central Lancashire > Preston PR1 2HE > Ex 5054 > 01772 895054 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/ec98e9ca/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Tue Mar 17 08:06:28 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:06:28 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: References: <195661AE-1FFE-4EBF-A770-82E60EB564E5@bazmac.co.uk> <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com>, Message-ID: Does by any other means include an install of it at FirstRun like CS3 does? I have a "working" master collection image install, but it still has some issues. One of them being it will NOT run at FirstRun, only when someone is logged on and installed by Policy or Self Service. Another being that I'm still forced to repair Acrobat Pro 9 even after it JUST installed it. POS. And even though I've selected particular portions of the suite to just install in Casper Admin it still installs them all so I do some cleaning out with scripts after the fact. So a one step process becomes 6. Casper Admin will also not recognize CS4 updaters, at least in their current form with 6.01. So I also have a traditional overlay package at the end that "patches" everything. NOTE: My DMG that Casper Admin is using is the single DMG electronic download from Adobe that's been modified. I know that not everyone seems to have that option. I'll have to take a look at what you have Ryan. "We'll get the installer fixed in CS6" Sure you will...*grumbles*. And that means it will be diferent for CS5 before then, too? Suffice it to say there isn't a pretty way to do it, but it's possible. Written up work flow I don't have. Craig Ernst Systems Management and Configuration +-------------------+ University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Learning and Technology Services 105 Garfield Ave Eau Claire, WI 54701 Phone: (715) 836-3639 Fax: (715) 836-6001 +-------------------+ ernstcs at uwec.edu ________________________________ From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Harter [rharter at uwsp.edu] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:51 AM To: Ted August Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install I have got Adobe CS4 working as a Self Service Policy (which means I can deploy it by any other means as well). I copied everything off of the DVDs (individually for each app) to "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/" and then used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, which I agree is substandard, to create the xml files, saving them along with the files in that directory. I had toyed around with putting stuff in /tmp but this caused some problems with Casper. Anyway, I then wrote a script like so: #!/bin/bash ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Installer Script # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/AdobeUberInstaller" rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" exit 0 It's not very robust and does no checking, but I haven't had any problems with it so far. Then all you have to do is set the script to run after and make sure the package is installed before it runs. Note: There is also an uninstall script like so: #!/bin/bash ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Uninstaller Script # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/AdobeUberUninstaller" rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" exit 0 As you can see, I've been using these since the 9th of January without any problem, granted we're just letting out Art faculty test it out now so my install base is only about 15. I prefer this to the packaging approach because the installer handles the licensing so my better, IMHO. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Ted August wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: Hi, I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the other application do. Anyone else seen this? I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/71bc7c04/attachment.htm From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Tue Mar 17 08:07:07 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:07:07 +0000 Subject: [Casper] self service In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49BFBC9B.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Tried it but it doesn't work on our network the OD group will only read OD users, i can add AD users in WGM but it doesn't search them, some weird AD setup we have here Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 >>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:57 PM, in message , Miles Leacy wrote: Thanks Craig. I realized my earlier message might not have been very clear. I *have* done the AD users in OD groups scenario. What I haven't done is assign policies to individual AD users. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote: This is correct. You scope the policy to an AD group of users. Craig E On 3/17/09 9:11 AM, "Miles Leacy" wrote: I've never tried this, so I'm not sure. However, If your LDAP is bound to your AD (fairly easy to do if your LDAP is OD), you can create an LDAP group that contains AD users. I'd also strongly recommend, as a sysadmin axiom, that one never assigns privileges or attributes to a user account. Using groups keeps the hard-to-track account cruft to a minimum. In this case, I'd create a "self service testing" group, and put your user in it. This way, you don't need to remember that johndoe has self service privileges, and if you want to expand the test, you can add users to the group. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/17 Criss Myers Hi People, Now that i have joined Casper to my Active Directory i can get users to login to the Self Service tool with their AD credentials, is there a way to assign a policy to a particular user? You can assign policies to Computers, computer groups, buildings or departments, and you can assign self service policies to User groups, but id like to be able to assign a self service policy to a particular user for testing. I know i can assign a logon/logoff policy to a user. I can also make an LDAP group (i dont have access to create and edit AD groups) and assign that group to a self service policy, but that adds an extra level of credentials. Is this possible? Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/a20a0fe6/attachment.html From rharter at uwsp.edu Tue Mar 17 11:21:39 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:21:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Uses for Open Directory Message-ID: Hey Guys- This isn't really a list topic so if you could reply to me off list that would be great. I work in an AD environment managing about 400 Macs. We have them all bound via Admit Mac, I'd like to get rid of it and use Apples built in AD support, but we need DFS support. Anyway, I did some research into a "Golden Triangle" setup last summer, using Active Directory and Open Directory on the clients, but decided then that I didn't see enough of a benefit. I was just wondering if some of you guys that use this setup would mind giving me an idea of some of the ways that you use Open Directory/WGM in your AD environment. As a side note, we are a university and so aren't interested in restricting the users like a grade school might be, we just want to be able to manage them better. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090317/e55e4248/attachment.htm From taugust04.lists at gmail.com Tue Mar 17 19:35:40 2009 From: taugust04.lists at gmail.com (Ted August) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:35:40 -0400 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: References: <195661AE-1FFE-4EBF-A770-82E60EB564E5@bazmac.co.uk> <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com> Message-ID: <25B8D206-6E4A-4403-B623-AC729FC94D4E@gmail.com> Thanks for the tip Ryan. I was really hoping to avoid the CS4 Deployment Toolkit, but it looks more and more like I'm going to be forced to. -- Ted August Salve Regina University On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Ryan Harter wrote: > I have got Adobe CS4 working as a Self Service Policy (which means I > can deploy it by any other means as well). > > I copied everything off of the DVDs (individually for each app) to "/ > Library/Application Support/UWSP/" and then used the Adobe > Deployment Toolkit, which I agree is substandard, to create the xml > files, saving them along with the files in that directory. I had > toyed around with putting stuff in /tmp but this caused some > problems with Casper. > > Anyway, I then wrote a script like so: > > #!/bin/bash > > ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Installer Script > # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 > > "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ > AdobeUberInstaller" > > rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" > > exit 0 > > It's not very robust and does no checking, but I haven't had any > problems with it so far. > > Then all you have to do is set the script to run after and make sure > the package is installed before it runs. > > Note: There is also an uninstall script like so: > > #!/bin/bash > > ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Uninstaller Script > # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 > > "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ > AdobeUberUninstaller" > > rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" > > exit 0 > > As you can see, I've been using these since the 9th of January > without any problem, granted we're just letting out Art faculty test > it out now so my install base is only about 15. > > I prefer this to the packaging approach because the installer > handles the licensing so my better, IMHO. > > Ryan Harter > UW - Stevens Point > Workstation Developer > 715.346.2716 > Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Ted August wrote: > >> On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install >>> packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the >>> applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then >>> dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making >>> individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine >>> except >>> Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I >>> push >>> the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, >>> if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the >>> other application do. Anyone else seen this? >>> >> >> I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to >> the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. >> >> Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful >> Adobe >> Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been >> googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other >> mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. >> I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe >> Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable >> (and I've let Adobe know!). >> >> Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 >> with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the >> deployment >> toolkit? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Ted August >> Salve > From rharter at uwsp.edu Wed Mar 18 09:27:17 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:27:17 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: References: <195661AE-1FFE-4EBF-A770-82E60EB564E5@bazmac.co.uk> <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com>, Message-ID: <08B47BFB-BA94-4071-BB57-6C03BEBA70E2@uwsp.edu> I haven't tried running it at first run, only from Self Service. What kind of errors do you get. I've got plenty of package that are "First Run", but all that really means is that I've created a Startup Item that deletes itself. That's a pretty easy process to do. I have seen some problems with firstrun failing before while using the NetBoot image because Casper Imaging copies everything that should go in the first run directory to /tmp on the local machine, and then copies it over the the /System/Library/StartupItems/FirstRun. This poses a problem in the NetBoot environment because the netboot's /tmp directory can't get very big because of the whole network aspect of it. In addition to that, we had problems with machines that have been imaged a lot because it backs up the logs to the netboot and they get too big. If you're using a master collection DMG like it sounded, then I would be wary of using that in first run. I've gotten around this by using a policy with custom triggers that copies the "Please wait while adobe apps install" application from Casper Imaging (/Contents/Resources/), then activates it, installs the adobe products, and then deletes all trace of itself. This is useful because only the script needs to be copied to the netboots /tmp directory and the adobe dmgs get copied to the main hard drive, so I know there will always be enough space. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote: > Does by any other means include an install of it at FirstRun like > CS3 does? > > I have a "working" master collection image install, but it still has > some issues. One of them being it will NOT run at FirstRun, only > when someone is logged on and installed by Policy or Self Service. > Another being that I'm still forced to repair Acrobat Pro 9 even > after it JUST installed it. POS. And even though I've selected > particular portions of the suite to just install in Casper Admin it > still installs them all so I do some cleaning out with scripts after > the fact. So a one step process becomes 6. > > Casper Admin will also not recognize CS4 updaters, at least in their > current form with 6.01. So I also have a traditional overlay package > at the end that "patches" everything. > > NOTE: My DMG that Casper Admin is using is the single DMG electronic > download from Adobe that's been modified. I know that not everyone > seems to have that option. > > I'll have to take a look at what you have Ryan. > > "We'll get the installer fixed in CS6" > > Sure you will...*grumbles*. And that means it will be diferent for > CS5 before then, too? > > Suffice it to say there isn't a pretty way to do it, but it's > possible. Written up work flow I don't have. > > Craig Ernst > Systems Management and Configuration > +-------------------+ > University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire > Learning and Technology Services > 105 Garfield Ave > Eau Claire, WI 54701 > Phone: (715) 836-3639 > Fax: (715) 836-6001 > +-------------------+ > ernstcs at uwec.edu > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ] On Behalf Of Ryan Harter [rharter at uwsp.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:51 AM > To: Ted August > Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install > > I have got Adobe CS4 working as a Self Service Policy (which means I > can deploy it by any other means as well). > > I copied everything off of the DVDs (individually for each app) to "/ > Library/Application Support/UWSP/" and then used the Adobe > Deployment Toolkit, which I agree is substandard, to create the xml > files, saving them along with the files in that directory. I had > toyed around with putting stuff in /tmp but this caused some > problems with Casper. > > Anyway, I then wrote a script like so: > > #!/bin/bash > > ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Installer Script > # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 > > "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ > AdobeUberInstaller" > > rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" > > exit 0 > > It's not very robust and does no checking, but I haven't had any > problems with it so far. > > Then all you have to do is set the script to run after and make sure > the package is installed before it runs. > > Note: There is also an uninstall script like so: > > #!/bin/bash > > ## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Uninstaller Script > # Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009 > > "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ > AdobeUberUninstaller" > > rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4" > > exit 0 > > As you can see, I've been using these since the 9th of January > without any problem, granted we're just letting out Art faculty test > it out now so my install base is only about 15. > > I prefer this to the packaging approach because the installer > handles the licensing so my better, IMHO. > > Ryan Harter > UW - Stevens Point > Workstation Developer > 715.346.2716 > Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu > > On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Ted August wrote: > >> On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install >>> packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the >>> applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then >>> dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making >>> individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine >>> except >>> Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I >>> push >>> the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, >>> if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the >>> other application do. Anyone else seen this? >>> >> >> I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to >> the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. >> >> Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful >> Adobe >> Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been >> googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other >> mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. >> I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe >> Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable >> (and I've let Adobe know!). >> >> Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 >> with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the >> deployment >> toolkit? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Ted August >> Salve > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090318/6b76dbf9/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Wed Mar 18 09:34:56 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:34:56 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com> Message-ID: Installing Adobe CS4 Products with Casper Suite 6.01 http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=196 As well as: Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=195 Sweet...it's not the world, but it's a start. =) Craig E On 3/17/09 9:10 AM, "Ted August" wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090318/472c11a9/attachment.htm From david.lundgren at brooks.edu Wed Mar 18 12:19:22 2009 From: david.lundgren at brooks.edu (David Lundgren) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:19:22 -0700 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: References: <18F8E2C1-30D7-44ED-9899-B22235C5013C@gmail.com> Message-ID: <3787BDBC76A76C439EC80E0136F8D34D176D38C0@040EMX200.cec.root.careered.com> I've used this method successfully to install CS4 Design Premium on more than 100 computers over the past month. I cached it first then modified the policy to "install all cached software" once the computers in the specific policy cached it. The only problem I've noticed with the installation was that CS3 Design Premium licensing stopped working, and I haven't really investigated if I accidentally installed something else before installing CS4, so it's possible something else broke the licensing for CS3. This was done with all the options turned on in Casper Admin, so it was a silent install with the dock icon being suppressed and so on. The work around was to install CS3 DP after the CS4 DP on a broken computer and then copying the Adobe PCD, caps, and FLEXnet Publisher folders and contents into each computer that exhibits this problem. Both CS3 and CS4 work properly now. Dave -- David Lundgren IT Systems Administrator 27 East Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 888.304.3456 (toll-free) 805.690.7615 (office) http://www.brooks.edu -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:35 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install Installing Adobe CS4 Products with Casper Suite 6.01 http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=196 As well as: Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=195 Sweet...it's not the world, but it's a start. =) Craig E On 3/17/09 9:10 AM, "Ted August" wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 19 08:04:43 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:04:43 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Uses for Open Directory In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49C218BA.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Ryan I am not sure if this will help but I will toss in my 2 cents on the subject... If you already have xserves in your environment and they aren't being put to use you could do OD, bind to AD and create the golden triangle like you mentioned before hand. This can come in handy to help load balance your servers. Instead of the AD server getting pounded all the time for file sharing and authentication you can balance some of that off to your OD server. WGM should actually be called work group mangler (I can't take credit for that name either, I heard it from someone else). It has come a long way now in 10.5 but still has "frailties." I have a very strong love/hate relationship with WGM. Even though you may not want to manage the Macs that much, with OD and MCX you can manage them very easily. No more local management and no more running scripts or what not, just update MCX, and log in/out your macs and you are now set. I guess what I am trying to get at is that from a sys admin point of view the OD environment will give you tons of more flexibility and options to accomplish what you want with your systems, however, all of these extra luxuries also come with having to fix any problems that you might encounter with them. Over all, I think that my OD environment is good, and all but I think Apple is still a bit confused on whether or not they want to become an Enterprise level company. They seem to make great products and then fall just short somewhere here or there. Once they step it up notch they will be a heavy contender for that market share, but until then it is hard for me, or probably anyone to tell you if it is worth it or not. I have 6,000+ macs so for me it is totally worth running OD on my servers. We are also K-12 education, so it again is worth it to me to have those management abilities of the systems. I hope that somewhat helps, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Ryan Harter 03/17/09 1:21 PM >>> Hey Guys- This isn't really a list topic so if you could reply to me off list that would be great. I work in an AD environment managing about 400 Macs. We have them all bound via Admit Mac, I'd like to get rid of it and use Apples built in AD support, but we need DFS support. Anyway, I did some research into a "Golden Triangle" setup last summer, using Active Directory and Open Directory on the clients, but decided then that I didn't see enough of a benefit. I was just wondering if some of you guys that use this setup would mind giving me an idea of some of the ways that you use Open Directory/WGM in your AD environment. As a side note, we are a university and so aren't interested in restricting the users like a grade school might be, we just want to be able to manage them better. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/faa89eb6/attachment.html From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 19 09:05:30 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:05:30 -0400 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: <3787BDBC76A76C439EC80E0136F8D34D176D38C0@040EMX200.cec.root.careered.com> Message-ID: I'm now starting to package up CS4 and have begun following the Jamf directions in KB article 196. One thing I have a question about, though, is where you're supposed to rename install-en_US.xml and uninstall-en_US.xml. So far, I've taken disk images of Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 but have found that the files aren't named what is provided in the documentation (deployment.xml and uninstall.xml in the case of Illustrator). Should I just rename this to install.xml and uninstall.xml? Also, we don't purchase "suites" of the products, but rather individual titles, so therefore they all have different serial numbers. Will this install method handle this approach ok with respect to the licensing? Thanks! j On 3/18/09 15:19 , "David Lundgren" wrote: I've used this method successfully to install CS4 Design Premium on more than 100 computers over the past month. I cached it first then modified the policy to "install all cached software" once the computers in the specific policy cached it. The only problem I've noticed with the installation was that CS3 Design Premium licensing stopped working, and I haven't really investigated if I accidentally installed something else before installing CS4, so it's possible something else broke the licensing for CS3. This was done with all the options turned on in Casper Admin, so it was a silent install with the dock icon being suppressed and so on. The work around was to install CS3 DP after the CS4 DP on a broken computer and then copying the Adobe PCD, caps, and FLEXnet Publisher folders and contents into each computer that exhibits this problem. Both CS3 and CS4 work properly now. Dave -- David Lundgren IT Systems Administrator 27 East Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 888.304.3456 (toll-free) 805.690.7615 (office) http://www.brooks.edu -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:35 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install Installing Adobe CS4 Products with Casper Suite 6.01 http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=196 As well as: Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=195 Sweet...it's not the world, but it's a start. =) Craig E On 3/17/09 9:10 AM, "Ted August" wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/0fa4fa53/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 19 09:28:04 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:28:04 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Good question, perhaps the documents only deal with suites and not point products. Hello, JAMF? We purchase one copy of Master Collection for a reason, licensing database issues. The other good reason is that you then have a single source of all the applications to use for multiple types of deployments with the JSS. By being able to use a single Master Collection license code we don't run into issues of other installs breaking each other as the license database gets rewritten. Everything is just licensed under that number. This also takes in to account you have the ability to track or restrict the applications that do run with the number of licenses you have. We, like several on the list use KeyServer to manage that piece and stay compliant with our concurrent licenses. We do have X number of suites purchased, but we also purchase additional point licenses for more widely used applications like Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Craig E On 3/19/09 11:05 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: I'm now starting to package up CS4 and have begun following the Jamf directions in KB article 196. One thing I have a question about, though, is where you're supposed to rename install-en_US.xml and uninstall-en_US.xml. So far, I've taken disk images of Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 but have found that the files aren't named what is provided in the documentation (deployment.xml and uninstall.xml in the case of Illustrator). Should I just rename this to install.xml and uninstall.xml? Also, we don't purchase "suites" of the products, but rather individual titles, so therefore they all have different serial numbers. Will this install method handle this approach ok with respect to the licensing? Thanks! j On 3/18/09 15:19 , "David Lundgren" wrote: I've used this method successfully to install CS4 Design Premium on more than 100 computers over the past month. I cached it first then modified the policy to "install all cached software" once the computers in the specific policy cached it. The only problem I've noticed with the installation was that CS3 Design Premium licensing stopped working, and I haven't really investigated if I accidentally installed something else before installing CS4, so it's possible something else broke the licensing for CS3. This was done with all the options turned on in Casper Admin, so it was a silent install with the dock icon being suppressed and so on. The work around was to install CS3 DP after the CS4 DP on a broken computer and then copying the Adobe PCD, caps, and FLEXnet Publisher folders and contents into each computer that exhibits this problem. Both CS3 and CS4 work properly now. Dave -- David Lundgren IT Systems Administrator 27 East Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 888.304.3456 (toll-free) 805.690.7615 (office) http://www.brooks.edu -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:35 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install Installing Adobe CS4 Products with Casper Suite 6.01 http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=196 As well as: Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=195 Sweet...it's not the world, but it's a start. =) Craig E On 3/17/09 9:10 AM, "Ted August" wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/03744dd2/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 19 09:28:29 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:28:29 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Message-ID: <49C22C5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/1e80847b/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 19 13:04:32 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: <49C22C5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49C22C5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49C25F00.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/9825fa7e/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 19 13:26:57 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:26:57 -0400 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install - solved? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Good news! I renamed the files in the deployment folder to install.xml and uninstall.xml from whatever their file names were previously, uploaded to JSS using Casper Admin and going about the usual CS3 creation process. Then, installed Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4 (license keys are different) via self service.... Works great! I'll try adding Contribute CS4 and Premiere CS4 to the mix tomorrow... J On 3/19/09 12:28 , "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: Good question, perhaps the documents only deal with suites and not point products. Hello, JAMF? We purchase one copy of Master Collection for a reason, licensing database issues. The other good reason is that you then have a single source of all the applications to use for multiple types of deployments with the JSS. By being able to use a single Master Collection license code we don't run into issues of other installs breaking each other as the license database gets rewritten. Everything is just licensed under that number. This also takes in to account you have the ability to track or restrict the applications that do run with the number of licenses you have. We, like several on the list use KeyServer to manage that piece and stay compliant with our concurrent licenses. We do have X number of suites purchased, but we also purchase additional point licenses for more widely used applications like Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Craig E On 3/19/09 11:05 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: I'm now starting to package up CS4 and have begun following the Jamf directions in KB article 196. One thing I have a question about, though, is where you're supposed to rename install-en_US.xml and uninstall-en_US.xml. So far, I've taken disk images of Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 but have found that the files aren't named what is provided in the documentation (deployment.xml and uninstall.xml in the case of Illustrator). Should I just rename this to install.xml and uninstall.xml? Also, we don't purchase "suites" of the products, but rather individual titles, so therefore they all have different serial numbers. Will this install method handle this approach ok with respect to the licensing? Thanks! j On 3/18/09 15:19 , "David Lundgren" wrote: I've used this method successfully to install CS4 Design Premium on more than 100 computers over the past month. I cached it first then modified the policy to "install all cached software" once the computers in the specific policy cached it. The only problem I've noticed with the installation was that CS3 Design Premium licensing stopped working, and I haven't really investigated if I accidentally installed something else before installing CS4, so it's possible something else broke the licensing for CS3. This was done with all the options turned on in Casper Admin, so it was a silent install with the dock icon being suppressed and so on. The work around was to install CS3 DP after the CS4 DP on a broken computer and then copying the Adobe PCD, caps, and FLEXnet Publisher folders and contents into each computer that exhibits this problem. Both CS3 and CS4 work properly now. Dave -- David Lundgren IT Systems Administrator 27 East Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 888.304.3456 (toll-free) 805.690.7615 (office) http://www.brooks.edu -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:35 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install Installing Adobe CS4 Products with Casper Suite 6.01 http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=196 As well as: Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=195 Sweet...it's not the world, but it's a start. =) Craig E On 3/17/09 9:10 AM, "Ted August" wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/0316ecf0/attachment.htm From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Thu Mar 19 13:26:57 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:26:57 -0400 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install - solved? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Good news! I renamed the files in the deployment folder to install.xml and uninstall.xml from whatever their file names were previously, uploaded to JSS using Casper Admin and going about the usual CS3 creation process. Then, installed Photoshop CS4 and Illustrator CS4 (license keys are different) via self service.... Works great! I'll try adding Contribute CS4 and Premiere CS4 to the mix tomorrow... J On 3/19/09 12:28 , "Ernst, Craig S." wrote: Good question, perhaps the documents only deal with suites and not point products. Hello, JAMF? We purchase one copy of Master Collection for a reason, licensing database issues. The other good reason is that you then have a single source of all the applications to use for multiple types of deployments with the JSS. By being able to use a single Master Collection license code we don't run into issues of other installs breaking each other as the license database gets rewritten. Everything is just licensed under that number. This also takes in to account you have the ability to track or restrict the applications that do run with the number of licenses you have. We, like several on the list use KeyServer to manage that piece and stay compliant with our concurrent licenses. We do have X number of suites purchased, but we also purchase additional point licenses for more widely used applications like Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Craig E On 3/19/09 11:05 AM, "Nichols, Jared" wrote: I'm now starting to package up CS4 and have begun following the Jamf directions in KB article 196. One thing I have a question about, though, is where you're supposed to rename install-en_US.xml and uninstall-en_US.xml. So far, I've taken disk images of Photoshop and Illustrator CS4 but have found that the files aren't named what is provided in the documentation (deployment.xml and uninstall.xml in the case of Illustrator). Should I just rename this to install.xml and uninstall.xml? Also, we don't purchase "suites" of the products, but rather individual titles, so therefore they all have different serial numbers. Will this install method handle this approach ok with respect to the licensing? Thanks! j On 3/18/09 15:19 , "David Lundgren" wrote: I've used this method successfully to install CS4 Design Premium on more than 100 computers over the past month. I cached it first then modified the policy to "install all cached software" once the computers in the specific policy cached it. The only problem I've noticed with the installation was that CS3 Design Premium licensing stopped working, and I haven't really investigated if I accidentally installed something else before installing CS4, so it's possible something else broke the licensing for CS3. This was done with all the options turned on in Casper Admin, so it was a silent install with the dock icon being suppressed and so on. The work around was to install CS3 DP after the CS4 DP on a broken computer and then copying the Adobe PCD, caps, and FLEXnet Publisher folders and contents into each computer that exhibits this problem. Both CS3 and CS4 work properly now. Dave -- David Lundgren IT Systems Administrator 27 East Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 888.304.3456 (toll-free) 805.690.7615 (office) http://www.brooks.edu -----Original Message----- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 9:35 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install Installing Adobe CS4 Products with Casper Suite 6.01 http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=196 As well as: Combining Multi-Disc Adobe CS4 Installs http://www.jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=195 Sweet...it's not the world, but it's a start. =) Craig E On 3/17/09 9:10 AM, "Ted August" wrote: On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote: > Hi, > > I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install > packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the > applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then > dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making > individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except > Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I push > the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also, > if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the > other application do. Anyone else seen this? > I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread. Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer? I've been googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet. I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable (and I've let Adobe know!). Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4 with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment toolkit? Thanks, -- Ted August Salve Regina University _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/0316ecf0/attachment.html From ylugassy at promedianj.com Thu Mar 19 15:23:15 2009 From: ylugassy at promedianj.com (Yaniv Lugassy) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:23:15 -0400 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: <49C25F00.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin , Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. ?I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. ?So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. ?Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. ?Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? ?I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. ?I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. ?My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas?Larkin TIS?Department KCKPS?USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry:??913-449-7589 office:??913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/e7ee1f2d/attachment.html From eric.winkelhake at mundocomww.com Thu Mar 19 15:29:11 2009 From: eric.winkelhake at mundocomww.com (Eric Winkelhake) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:29:11 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: References: <49C25F00.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/2009 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin , < casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 < mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10> /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090319/d838a420/attachment.htm From jeremymatthews at mac.com Fri Mar 20 09:09:04 2009 From: jeremymatthews at mac.com (Jeremy Matthews) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:09:04 -0400 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Install Workaround Message-ID: I'm using the CS4 workaround (disk image manipulation, modifying the install.xml files, etc) - which does work successfully, but the installer is not suppressed, even though it is checked properly in casper admin. Anyone else hit this? Thanks, j From jeremymatthews at mac.com Fri Mar 20 09:10:46 2009 From: jeremymatthews at mac.com (Jeremy Matthews) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:10:46 -0400 Subject: [Casper] "Shared" sidebar in 10.5 Message-ID: <7BE3D8E1-CA3A-4711-96F6-9B3BE0E4B616@mac.com> I know someone already mentioned how to do this, but I cannot find that note for some reason...how do you keep users from seeing "Shared" servers or computers...can you perform a whitelist function, or a blacklist function? I'm not sure how it can be filtered. Thanks, jeremy From tlarki at kckps.org Fri Mar 20 09:15:47 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:15:47 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: References: <49C25F00.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49C37AE3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and takes care of the rest. It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works. I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/2009 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin , Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 ( afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10/ ) /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090320/4694d60d/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Fri Mar 20 09:17:16 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:17:16 -0400 Subject: [Casper] "Shared" sidebar in 10.5 In-Reply-To: <7BE3D8E1-CA3A-4711-96F6-9B3BE0E4B616@mac.com> References: <7BE3D8E1-CA3A-4711-96F6-9B3BE0E4B616@mac.com> Message-ID: Here's a discussion re: removing the "shared" items from the Finder sidebar. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Miles Leacy Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [Casper] Shared Volumes To: "Nicholas, Lauren" Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Ok, for this, we want to set the "ShowServers" key in com.apple.sidebarlists.plist to No or 0. PlistBuddy -c Set :systemitems:ShowServers 0 /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist Someone may want to double-check my PlistBuddy syntax as I haven't dug up my script, but I recalled the name of the plist, took a Quicklook at it, and put this command together. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Miles Leacy wrote: > I've done this. I need to dig through my scripts. I'll get back to you > soon. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/12 Nicholas, Lauren > >> Hi Folks- >> >> >> >> We are using ADmitMac here on campus for AD integration. One bug is that >> when you click on a server you are connected to in the Sidebar under Shared, >> it says ?connection failed? and then immediately disconnects you. It?s an >> annoyance, and I actually would like to disable users from seeing the Shared >> servers anyway. If they want to see the servers they have mounted (other >> than on their desktop) they can click Computer. >> >> >> >> Is there a way to do this? >> >> >> >> Thanks, (and as you can see, I?m a rookie user. We just got the Suite last >> week!) >> >> >> >> lauren >> >> * * >> >> ? >> *LAUREN NICHOLAS* >> User Support Analyst >> >> Center for Information Technology ? CIT >> >> Moravian College >> >> adjunct prof | graphic design & music >> ph. 610 861 1633 >> lpnicholas at moravian.edu >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Casper mailing list >> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >> >> > ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote: > I know someone already mentioned how to do this, but I cannot find > that note for some reason...how do you keep users from seeing "Shared" > servers or computers...can you perform a whitelist function, or a > blacklist function? > > I'm not sure how it can be filtered. > > Thanks, > jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090320/8c316425/attachment.html From ktrampe at basd.k12.wi.us Fri Mar 20 09:18:38 2009 From: ktrampe at basd.k12.wi.us (Kerry Trampe) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:18:38 -0500 Subject: [Casper] "Shared" sidebar in 10.5 In-Reply-To: <7BE3D8E1-CA3A-4711-96F6-9B3BE0E4B616@mac.com> References: <7BE3D8E1-CA3A-4711-96F6-9B3BE0E4B616@mac.com> Message-ID: Hey Jeremy, Happy Vernal Equinox! It's in Finder Preferences under "Sidebar". Click on the desktop and press command and comma. You'll find the checkbox under "shared". Cheers, Kerry On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote: > I know someone already mentioned how to do this, but I cannot find > that note for some reason...how do you keep users from seeing "Shared" > servers or computers...can you perform a whitelist function, or a > blacklist function? > > I'm not sure how it can be filtered. > > Thanks, > jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Fri Mar 20 09:21:46 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:21:46 -0400 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: <49C37AE3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49C25F00.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49C37AE3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin > Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are > on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what > version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not > support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal > passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I > am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. > > So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't > connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. > DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy > systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this > point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my > Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my > window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. > > I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one > particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the > database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and > takes care of the rest. > > It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the > end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them > under the hood. That way they just click and it works. > > I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end > user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> > > I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so > actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password > part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the > shell. > > eric winkelhake > mundocomww > office 312 220 1669 > cell 312 504 5155 > > > > *Yaniv Lugassy * > Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > > 03/19/2009 05:23 PM > > To > > Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin < > TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org>, > > cc > > Subject > > Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching > > > > > > > > > How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you > without any problems: > > osascript -e 'mount volume "*afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"*' > > > > Yaniv Lugassy* > Promedia Technology Services, Inc.* > Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 > Fax: 973.253.5601 > www.promedianj.com<*http://www.promedianj.com*> > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *Thomas Larkin <*tlarki at kckps.org*>* > Date: *Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500* > To: *Thomas Larkin <*TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org*>, <* > casper at list.jamfsoftware.com*>* > Subject: *Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app > launching > > > > Well > > > > A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share > fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never > get it to work. I always get this error: > > > > mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 > > > > So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: > > > > mkdir /Volumes/FS106 > > > > mount_afp *afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10*<* > mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 *> > /Volumes/FS106 > > > > I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a > script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is > mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have > location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. > > > > > Any help would be appreciated > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500* > tlarki at kckps.org* > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> "Thomas Larkin" <*tlarki at kckps.org*> 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> > > > > Well > > > > > > > This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell > servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in > using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account > to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and > have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the > app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. > > > > > > > I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it > always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI > based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the > user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. > > > > > > > I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I > need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't > get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account > that can have access to this database file and then use that generic > password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the > user's actual credentials. > > > > > > > Thanks for any advice. > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500* > tlarki at kckps.org* > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list* > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper* > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Disclaimer > The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary > and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090320/f32c5a8b/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Fri Mar 20 09:26:21 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:26:21 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: References: <49C25F00.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49C37AE3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49C37D5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one time. I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like suggested and see if it makes a difference. Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. tom >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and takes care of the rest. It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works. I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/2009 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin , Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self serfine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090320/6ecd341c/attachment.html From Tommy.Birchett at martinagency.com Fri Mar 20 10:01:41 2009 From: Tommy.Birchett at martinagency.com (Tommy Birchett) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:01:41 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Scope policy to AD LDAP user groups Message-ID: I am trying to scope a policy to an AD LPAP user groups for the first time. I have tested users, groups and group memberships in the LDAP testing area of the JSS and all is working as expected. My policy is a self service policy that was working already assigned to specific computers. I have changed that setting to "assign to all computers" and I have successfully added 2 LDAP user groups. Now, when I launch self service for any computer logged in as that user it does not show the installer package that should be available to them. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- Tommy Birchett | The Martin Agency| 804-698-8592 | 804-389-3071 From john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us Fri Mar 20 10:28:19 2009 From: john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us (John Wetter) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:28:19 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching In-Reply-To: <49C37D5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: Tom, From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: =3D1 And then to: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=3D20071028025409750&mode=3Dpri= nt You can run: $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES This is for older Novell servers that don't have Universal passwords set up= on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?= ) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the case, I = can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single apps tha= t require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save = it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code fo= r this. if (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then --test to see if volume is already mounted then tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" end tell end if --hide volume from desktops so it doesn't get messed with do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" do shell script "killall Finder" tell application "System Events" to delay 2 tell application "Finder" open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk end tell Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tool= s and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like the = jamf mount -hidden command but this doesn't seem to hide it from finder lik= e the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the vol= ume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don't use it for= testing. -John On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the sha= re at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experience = with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger c= onnections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one tim= e. I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like sugges= ted and see if it makes a difference. Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. tom >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workg= roup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my= head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on= old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what versi= on of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support e= ncrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enable= d and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a = part of that project. Different network admins. So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't con= nect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. DNS = is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems,= which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in t= ime I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac serv= ers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to = get this working is getting shorter and shorter. I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one parti= cular file on a network share so the application can write data to the data= base file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and take= s care of the rest. It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end = user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them unde= r the hood. That way they just click and it works. I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end use= r. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so = actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part= . that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shel= l. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/20= 09 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you = without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com > ________________________________ From: Thomas Larkin > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin >, > Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app lau= nching Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fi= ne via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get= it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 > /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a = script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is moun= ted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have loc= ation specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" > 03/19/09 = 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell serv= ers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in us= ing plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to= allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and ha= ve it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app'= s preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it = always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI b= ased dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user= authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I= need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don= 't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user accoun= t that can have access to this database file and then use that generic pass= word in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user'= s actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________= ________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary a= nd confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. If = you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclo= sure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the contents of this infor= mation is prohibited. When addressed to our clients or vendors, any informa= tion contained in this e-mail or any attachments is subject to the terms an= d conditions in any governing contract. If you have received this e-mail in= error, please immediately contact the sender and delete the e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mundocom UK Limited, Registered in England and Wales. Registration Number 2= 882166. Registered Office: Warwick Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore R= oad, London W14 8HQ. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -- John Wetter Technology Support Administrator Educational Technology, Media & Information Services Hopkins Public Schools 952-988-5373 --_000_C5E93C638E6Bjohnwetterhopkinsk12mnus_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launc= hing Tom,

From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: =3D3054602&sliceId=3D1
And then to:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=3D200710280= 25409750&mode=3Dprint

You can run:
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow"= -bool YES
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" = -bool YES

This is for older Novell servers that don’t have Universal passwords = set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that).
For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?= ) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests.  If this is the cas= e, I can send them along off-list, let me know.  Or, for opening singl= e apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and = then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it.  Below is= sample code for this.

if<= /FONT> = (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then
   &nb= sp;--test to see if volume is already mounted then
    <= /FONT>t= ell application "Finder"
     &n= bsp;  mount volume "afp://user:password at server.do= main.org/VolumeName"
    <= FONT COLOR=3D"#3500FF">end<= /FONT> tell
end if
--hide volume fr= om desktops so it doesn’t get messed with
do = shell script = "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volum= es/VolumeName"
do shell script "k= illall Finder"
tell application "System Events&qu= ot; to delay 2
tell application "Finder"
    <= FONT COLOR=3D"#1800FF">open= file "Applications:MyApp" of startup= disk
end tell<= BR>
Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tool= s and is used to hide the volume from the desktop.  It works much like= the jamf mount –hidden command but this doesn’t seem to hide i= t from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can = still see the volume.  We use this to launch our apps needing a volume= , but don’t use it for testing.

-John


On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

  

 I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clie= nts accessing the share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounte= d.  In my experience with this testing app from last year is that it w= orks best if you stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more t= han 400 clients at one time.     =  

       

 I am going to try to invoke apple script from the com= mand line like suggested and see if it makes a difference.    

       

 Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciat= ed.<= SPAN STYLE=3D'font-size:11pt'>    

       

 tom

>>> Miles Leacy <miles.= leacy at themacadmin.com> 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>>
Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workg= roup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my= head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script.

----------
Miles A. Leacy IV

 Certified System Administrator
 Certified Trainer
Certified Casper Administrator
----------
voice: 1-347-277-7321
miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
www.themacadmin.com <http://www.t= hemacadmin.com>




    
 
 

 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin      
 
 

 <tlarki at kckps.org>   = ;     
 
 

 
 
 

 

 Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is tha= t these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck= if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that = it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have unive= rsal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe b= ut I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins.=          =
 

 
 
 

 So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share j= ust fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there is actual= ly a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on= some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file share= s. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file = on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare thou= gh, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter.          = ;
 

 
 
 

 I just want to create a generic account, grant it acc= ess to this one particular file on a network share so the application can w= rite data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the applicat= ion launches and takes care of the rest.  =         
 

 
 
 

 It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, = want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the wo= rk done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works.         &n= bsp;
 

 
 
 

 I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be inter= rupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell scrip= t.        &nb= sp; 
 
 

 
 
 
 ___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351





              
 

 >>> Eric Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at mundocomww.com> 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>>=          
 
 

            &nb= sp;    
 
 

 
 I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?= ? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password= part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the= shell.

eric winkelhake
mundocomww
office 312 220 1669
cell 312 504 5155



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   Yaniv Lugassy <ylugassy at promedianj.= com>
Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.= com    &nbs= p;            &= nbsp;    03/19/2009 05:23 PM &= nbsp;           &nbs= p;          

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   Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launchi= ng     &nb= sp;            =             
 
 
  
   
     
     

 
 
    

 
 
 
 How about something like this for the script, should do th= e mount for you without any problems:

osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/share= point"'



Yaniv Lugassy
Promedia Technology Services, Inc.
Office: 973.253.7600 x2308
Fax: 973.253.5601
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From: Thomas Larkin <<= U>tlarki at kckps.org <http://tlarki at kckps.org> >
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500
To: Thomas Larkin <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org<= U> <http://TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org>= >, <casper at list.jamfso= ftware.com <http://caspe= r at list.jamfsoftware.com> >
Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and = app launching



Well



A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mo= unt the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command= I can never get it to work. I always get this error:



mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118



So this is my method of doing this from the terminal:



mkdir /Volumes/FS106



mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10= <mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 <mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10> > /Volumes/FS106



I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just = auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if tha= t volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, whi= ch will have location specific configuration for where to look for the data= base file.



Any help would be appreciated





___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org <http://tlarki at kckps.org> <= BR> blackberry: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351





>>> "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org <http://tlarki at kckps.org>= > 03/19/09 11:28 AM= >>>



Well






This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some= old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have= users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each= user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self servi= ce policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. = Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look.<= BR>





I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in inte= ractive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't see= m to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 second= s while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question.=






I have the app configured and it works when I do everything= manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end u= ser, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one gen= eric user account that can have access to this database file and then use t= hat generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood wi= th out the user's actual credentials.






Thanks for any advice.



___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org <http://tlarki at kckps.org> <= BR> blackberry: 913-449-7589
office: 913-627-0351







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 --_000_C5E93C638E6Bjohnwetterhopkinsk12mnus_-- From amir-bozorgzadeh at uiowa.edu Fri Mar 20 13:08:29 2009 From: amir-bozorgzadeh at uiowa.edu (Bozorgzadeh, Amir J) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:08:29 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 and error Message-ID: I hate to keep bringing this up. I recently created a package for CS4 Web Premium using directions on Jamf site. It all starts to work and then stops with following error... Adobe Installation Error from Adobe CS4 Web Premium.dmg: Unable to complete the silent workflow (Exit Code 7). Closing package... Any ideas? I sure wish Jamf software would come up with an easy solution for distributing CS4. Thanks. ________________________________ Amir Bozorgzadeh Campus Technology Services University of Iowa 2800 UCC Iowa City, Iowa 52242 319-335-5480 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Just today I installed CS4 using Adobe's scripting instructions and Acrobat still would not launch without asking for administrator credentials every time. I'm resigning myself to the idea of having to baby-sit just about every installation. (Hint: look at giving write permission to everyone for all the /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* files, particularly com.adobe.acrobat.pdfviewer.plist) Keep an eye on Adobe's Installation and Licensing blog . Add your voice to the others too when warranted. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From amir-bozorgzadeh at uiowa.edu Fri Mar 20 13:56:13 2009 From: amir-bozorgzadeh at uiowa.edu (Bozorgzadeh, Amir J) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:56:13 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Error Message-ID: I realize that it the installer issues are Adobes. They suck for installers on both platforms. The Windows guys bitch more about it than I do. I am sorry for trying to put the blame on Jamf. That was not my intention I was just venting and hoping Jamf could make installer work since Adobe doesn't seem to be able to. Please don't bombard me with emails defending Jamf software. I like what the company is doing and would be totally lost without their software. I look forward to Casper Suite 7..... I am not getting the error now that I got prior, so I will see when I get it installed if all is ok..... Thanks. ________________________________ Amir Bozorgzadeh Campus Technology Services University of Iowa 2800 UCC Iowa City, Iowa 52242 319-335-5480 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/fb447230/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Mon Mar 23 05:14:31 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:14:31 -0500 Subject: [Casper] scripts In-Reply-To: <49C7790D.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: Well, Chris, can you give us some details about the script and what it's doing? When do you have it configured to run in the JSS, before, after, or at reboot? What do any logs tell you about it failing? In reality there really isn't suppose to be much different between any of these methods aside from Casper Imaging. If you don't have a script set to run at Reboot it will interact with your imaging partition from as the OS that's currently running. This is why you need to set scripts that need to interact with your finished OS at reboot so it updates the proper system. When you're logged in are you an Active Directory or Open Directory user account? So many questions. Craig E On 3/23/09 6:57 AM, "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me the difference in the way in which a script is run between : Casper Remote Self Service Locally Casper Imaging I have a script that runs perfectly well locally as root and also runs fine as Casper Remote when logged in as me, however it fails to run with self service and also casper imaging Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/19318925/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Mon Mar 23 07:27:23 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:27:23 -0400 Subject: [Casper] 802.1x login.. Message-ID: Has anyone had any luck creating an 802.1x login profile package? I'd like to be able to automate the process of creating all plist files and other necessary settings to allow a machine bound to AD to log on and be automatically connected to our WLAN. At the least, I'd like to provide pre-configured settings and then supply the Internet Connect window at login that would just prompt them for their AD credentials for wifi authentication. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/7fd59218/attachment.htm From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Mon Mar 23 07:40:12 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:40:12 +0000 Subject: [Casper] 802.1x login.. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49C79F4C.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> HI, We have a wireless connection thats uses authentication, what i did was turn off the wireless at logout and turn it on at login , it then prompts my users for login details and to accept the certificate #!/bin/sh #Set Network Service networksetup -createnetworkservice "Library Wireless" "Airport" networksetup -setairportpower on exit 0 Criss ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 >>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:27 PM, in message , "John McLaughlin" wrote: Has anyone had any luck creating an 802.1x login profile package? I'd like to be able to automate the process of creating all plist files and other necessary settings to allow a machine bound to AD to log on and be automatically connected to our WLAN. At the least, I'd like to provide pre-configured settings and then supply the Internet Connect window at login that would just prompt them for their AD credentials for wifi authentication. > John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/8e592878/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Mon Mar 23 08:44:29 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:44:29 -0400 Subject: [Casper] 802.1x login.. In-Reply-To: <49C79F4C.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> References: <,> <49C79F4C.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hi Criss, This would seem to enable a user profile and not a login profile. Also, when I use that networksetup line, it creates a new service and not a preferred network within Airport which is what we need. John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools "Criss Myers" writes: > > >HI, > > > > >We have a wireless connection thats uses authentication, what i did was >turn off the wireless at logout and turn it on at login , it then prompts >my users for login details and to accept the certificate > > > > >#!/bin/sh > > > > >#Set Network Service > > > > >networksetup -createnetworkservice "Library Wireless" "Airport" > >networksetup -setairportpower on > > > > >exit 0 > > > > >Criss > > > > > >?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > > > >> > > >Criss Myers > >Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) > >Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 > >LIS Business Support Team > >Library 301 > >University of Central Lancashire > >Preston PR1 2HE > >Ex 5054 > >01772 895054 > >>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 2:27 PM, in message >, "John >McLaughlin" wrote: > > > > > >Has anyone had any luck creating an 802.1x login profile package? I'd >like to be able to automate the process of creating all plist files and >other necessary settings to allow a machine bound to AD to log on and be >automatically connected to our WLAN. At the least, I'd like to provide >pre-configured settings and then supply the Internet Connect window at >login that would just prompt them for their AD credentials for wifi >authentication. > > > > > >> > > > > >John McLaughlin > > > > >Technical Support Specialist > > > > >Newton Public Schools > > > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >Casper mailing list >Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/6e508840/attachment.htm From amir-bozorgzadeh at uiowa.edu Mon Mar 23 11:06:32 2009 From: amir-bozorgzadeh at uiowa.edu (Bozorgzadeh, Amir J) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:06:32 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 Message-ID: Ok I got the package built for CS4 Web Premium..... It does not work when I am not logged in. Looks like it is but sits for hours on end. If I reboot and then log in with admin ID and run it works fine and does the install. Has anyone had any luck running it on a machine that is not logged into? Is this something I will have to do? DO I need to create a script to log me in before I do this install? If so any ideas on what I need it to do? Hope this all makes sense. So hate adobe installers.......wish they could get their act together like the everyone else. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated from anyone that has CS4 installer working. 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Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/722c0a27/attachment.html From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Mon Mar 23 11:10:26 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:10:26 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: There are some scripts for Boot Camp deployment in the resource kit. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/23 Jeff Strauss > Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I?d > like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our > software to be created during Casper Imaging. > > Thanks for your continued help, everyone! > * > Jeffrey A. Strauss > *Department of Educational Technology > *Systems Administrator > *Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/3dfba68d/attachment.htm From cmyers at uclan.ac.uk Mon Mar 23 11:16:10 2009 From: cmyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:16:10 +0000 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1A63F11D-DD20-4BB3-AF90-ED3CFD52DCF9@uclan.ac.uk> Those scripts don't work ATM, I'm doing work to fix em On 23 Mar 2009, at 18:10, Miles Leacy wrote: > There are some scripts for Boot Camp deployment in the resource kit. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > 2009/3/23 Jeff Strauss > Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I > ?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of > our software to be created during Casper Imaging. > > Thanks for your continued help, everyone! > > Jeffrey A. Strauss > Department of Educational Technology > Systems Administrator > Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/ece07f77/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Mon Mar 23 11:35:45 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:35:45 -0500 Subject: [Casper] CS4 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: The way that I've worked my patching for Adobe CS3, since some of those patches appeared to need to have a login active, is what I'll use to install CS4. I haven't had a few minutes to set it up. But basically after imaging I have a script for At Reboot that triggers a policy that does these things: * Creates a new local user * Applies an autologon package for that user * Places a local copy of the JAMFhelper * Restarts the computer At restart the user account logs in in which there is a policy that is set for that particular user that does: * Calls the local JAMF Helper * Applies all of the CS3 patches I make available * Uninstalls autologon package for that user * Restores the default LoginWindow prefs * Installs a startup item for cleanup * Restarts the computer At restart the cleanup package does: * Deletes the local account that was created for patching * Deletes the startup item * Runs a recon cycle * Triggers a final policy mainly for logging that the patching process completed Essentially I'll use the same process, instead of patching installing CS4. Not sure if this is the best way to deal with it, but that's what I came up with. Might get to this this week for testing. I can let you know... Craig E On 3/23/09 1:06 PM, "Bozorgzadeh, Amir J" wrote: Ok I got the package built for CS4 Web Premium..... It does not work when I am not logged in. Looks like it is but sits for hours on end. If I reboot and then log in with admin ID and run it works fine and does the install. Has anyone had any luck running it on a machine that is not logged into? Is this something I will have to do? DO I need to create a script to log me in before I do this install? If so any ideas on what I need it to do? Hope this all makes sense. So hate adobe installers.......wish they could get their act together like the everyone else. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated from anyone that has CS4 installer working. Thanks! ________________________________ Amir Bozorgzadeh Campus Technology Services University of Iowa 2800 UCC Iowa City, Iowa 52242 319-335-5480 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/4d696d4b/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Mon Mar 23 11:37:42 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:37:42 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49C790A6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> For what it is worth I did create and deploy a boot camp image on 6,000 macbooks last summer. I used two scripts that were pre-resource kit and provided by Casper. I had some issues but in the end I was able to reimage 6,000 laptops with a dual boot image in about 5 weeks time, working 12 hour days every day. On my website I have some links of what I did, and a brief description. I know Criss is having some issues but it worked fine for me, that is all I can say. http://tlarkin.com/tech/shell-script-post-image-machine-boot-camp-partition I also have copies of NTFS.progs and gtprefresh if you need them I can toss them on my webhost. let me know ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Jeff Strauss 03/23/09 1:07 PM >>> Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. Thanks for your continued help, everyone! Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/3d462aee/attachment.html From lopez at embl.de Mon Mar 23 11:57:44 2009 From: lopez at embl.de (Carmelo Lopez Portilla) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:57:44 +0100 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: <49C790A6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49C790A6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <0E191FEF-DDAC-4472-A0D8-1DDEABB2FA88@embl.de> I am using the winclone to make the bootcamp image an to deploy via a script. You can find info on the winclone website and in their PDF fir this issue Cheers Carmelo Lopez Portilla Please consider the enviroment before printing this e-mail. El 23/03/2009, a las 19:37, "Thomas Larkin" escribi?: > For what it is worth I did create and deploy a boot camp image on > 6,000 macbooks last summer. I used two scripts that were pre- > resource kit and provided by Casper. I had some issues but in the > end I was able to reimage 6,000 laptops with a dual boot image in > about 5 weeks time, working 12 hour days every day. > > On my website I have some links of what I did, and a brief > description. I know Criss is having some issues but it worked fine > for me, that is all I can say. > > http://tlarkin.com/tech/shell-script-post-image-machine-boot-camp-partition > > I also have copies of NTFS.progs and gtprefresh if you need them I > can toss them on my webhost. let me know > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> Jeff Strauss 03/23/09 1:07 PM >>> > Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I > ?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of > our software to be created during Casper Imaging. > > Thanks for your continued help, everyone! > > Jeffrey A. Strauss > Department of Educational Technology > Systems Administrator > Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090323/6aa0596a/attachment.htm From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Tue Mar 24 04:31:18 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:31:18 +0000 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: <49C790A6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49C790A6.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49C8C486.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Aye, i cannot get it to work with a netinstall image, It works fine with a Self Service policy and Casper Remote but i cannot get it to work with Casper Imaging, i persume your restore script runs as AFTER during the image process? Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 >>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM, in message <49C790A6.7141.0039.0 at kckps.org>, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: For what it is worth I did create and deploy a boot camp image on 6,000 macbooks last summer. I used two scripts that were pre-resource kit and provided by Casper. I had some issues but in the end I was able to reimage 6,000 laptops with a dual boot image in about 5 weeks time, working 12 hour days every day. On my website I have some links of what I did, and a brief description. I know Criss is having some issues but it worked fine for me, that is all I can say. http://tlarkin.com/tech/shell-script-post-image-machine-boot-camp-partition I also have copies of NTFS.progs and gtprefresh if you need them I can toss them on my webhost. let me know ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Jeff Strauss 03/23/09 1:07 PM >>> Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. Thanks for your continued help, everyone! Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090324/de5acdbf/attachment.html From clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca Wed Mar 25 10:07:58 2009 From: clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca (Clinton Blackmore) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:07:58 -0600 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to create triple-boot machines! I gather that DeployStudio is the spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself. I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. Clinton Blackmore On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: > Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? > I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all > of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. > > Thanks for your continued help, everyone! > > Jeffrey A. Strauss > Department of Educational Technology > Systems Administrator > Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/51841309/attachment.htm From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Wed Mar 25 11:07:59 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:07:59 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> References: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> Message-ID: Casper is able to deploy dual boot environments as well, my coworker here has been working on it and is currently out otherwise I?m sure he?d respond. And it doesn?t matter what imaging solution you use whether it?s Casper imaging or Deploy studio, certain things are going to be the same. You need to boot to something other than the drive your imaging so either way you?re netbooting or using a restore partition. You need to partition the drive, you need to format the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you use NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together in the resource kit much of what you?ll need to do dual boot deployments, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, and knowing Thomas I?m sure he will respond to this. J One thing we?ve encountered is that it?s not too difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot deployment. But when you add in needing to do things like binding to AD etc? where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more difficult. Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuff. Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that here so I don?t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know that there are several people on this list serv that have done it and do regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I?d check the archives. There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from everything I?ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper environment. It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything it can do. With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked a couple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple SE?s I asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to bother with it if you have Casper available. It?s a step down. And you won?t have the great support that JAMF provides. It does make for a nice presentation and all since it is pretty, but in practice no matter what system you use to do the imaging you?re going to run into the same pitfalls that need to be overcome. Definitely check through the archives on this, check out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, maybe my co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can speak with more authority on the matter, but I?m not sure when that might be. From our conversations about how his testing and development of the process for our needs here I know he said that having to Bind to AD increased the amount of setup. But I can?t say why since I?ve been keeping my nose out of it while he worked on it. Good luck. Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM To: Jeff Strauss Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to create triple-boot machines! I gather that DeployStudio is the spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself. I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. Clinton Blackmore On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. Thanks for your continued help, everyone! Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The policy that deploys the dummy receipt is scoped to a group containing only the desired user. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Brad Rellinger wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to have the JSS email me when a certain user logs in? > > It would be a network user with a network home directory. > > My first thought was to create a Smart Group - but I don't see the > option to populate it with a specific logged in user. > > Thanks > -------- > Brad Rellinger > Technology Specialist > Anthony Wayne Schools K-12 > aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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You need to boot to something other than th > e drive your imaging so either way you?re netbooting or using a rest > ore partition. You need to partition the drive, you need to format > the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you u > se NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together > in the resource kit much of what you?ll need to do dual boot deploym > ents, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, and > knowing Thomas I?m sure he will respond to this. J > > One thing we?ve encountered is that it?s not too > difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot depl > oyment. But when you add in needing to do things like binding to A > D etc? where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more diff > icult. Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuf > f. Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that h > ere so I don?t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know tha > t there are several people on this list serv that have done it and d > o regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I?d check the archives. > > There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from > everything I?ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper e > nvironment. It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything it > can do. With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked a co > uple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple SE?s I > asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to bother with > it if you have Casper available. It?s a step down. And you won > ?t have the great support that JAMF provides. It does make for a > nice presentation and all since it is pretty, but in practice no mat > ter what system you use to do the imaging you?re going to run into t > he same pitfalls that need to be overcome. > > Definitely check through the archives on this, check > out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, maybe my > co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can speak with > more authority on the matter, but I?m not sure when that might be. > From our conversations about how his testing and development of the > process for our needs here I know he said that having to Bind to AD > increased the amount of setup. But I can?t say why since I?ve > been keeping my nose out of it while he worked on it. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Dustin Dorey > > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > > Independant School District 196 > > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > > dustin.dorey at district196.org > > 651|423|7971 > > > > > > > > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM > To: Jeff Strauss > Cc: Casper List > Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments > > > > My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, > they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to > create triple-boot machines! I gather that DeployStudio is the > spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself. > > > > I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. > > > > Clinton Blackmore > > > > > > On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: > > > > > Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I > ?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of > our software to be created during Casper Imaging. > > Thanks for your continued help, everyone! > > Jeffrey A. Strauss > Department of Educational Technology > Systems Administrator > Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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If I first install Design Premium and then go back and try to lay the entire Master Suite over it, I get the lovely Exit Code 7 error, which we all know points to a piece of the Adobe package remaining. So, I followed the instructions at the following Adobe KB article to remove all of CS3 and then tried re-installing Master Suite. Same error message: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400607 Any one have any idea why I would still be getting Exit Code 7 if all of the CS3 suite was removed? Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integerdallas.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/a44aba22/attachment.html From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Wed Mar 25 12:35:12 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:35:12 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items In-Reply-To: <438f5a310903251221k4c761012o108a365ceb82b77@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: From: Steve Wood Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:21:53 -0500 To: Subject: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items > Any one have any idea why I would still be getting Exit Code 7 if all of the > CS3 suite was removed? Hi Steve! Look for Adobe remnants in the /Library folder. When I saw this message I believe I removed: /Library/Application Support/Adobe (the whole folder) /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/flashplayer.xpt /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* You might also consider: /Library/Application Support/Macromedia That may be overkill, however. Hope this helps! -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Wed Mar 25 12:43:39 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:43:39 -0500 Subject: [Casper] LDAP Binding Scripts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Jim, There is AD binding settings that can be set in Casper Imaging on the account tab or many scripts from the Resource Kit that can be used for LDAP, AD, OD. http://www.jamfsoftware.com/support/resourcekit.php Specify the scripts to be "at Reboot" -Nathaniel From: Jim Frye To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Date: 03/25/2009 02:25 PM Subject: [Casper] LDAP Binding Scripts Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com As part of the imaging process, are there any scripts that can be added to the JSS to bind a machine to LDAP so that when it reboots it is bound to the local LDAP? -- Jim Frye District Technology Coordinator Upper Sandusky E.V. Schools Upper Sandusky, OH 43351 419-310-2709_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/f98c1786/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Wed Mar 25 12:59:15 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:59:15 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: References: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> Message-ID: <49CA46C3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> OK, I just pulled the script off my actual casper share, this is the actual script we use to mass image our Macs. I image probably over 100 per a month that go in and out for repair and of course 6,000 every summer. All I have to do is netboot and autorun data takes care of the rest #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin export PATH ## DISK PARTITIONING PARAMETERS volume='/Volumes/Macintosh HD' mac='75%' windows='24%' ## BOOT CAMP SOURCE IMAGE PARAMETERS CasperShare="/Volumes/CasperShare" ntfs_image="$CasperShare/Scripts/BootCamp.ntfs" # Optionally, you can set the following values explicitly root_target_disk="disk0" # e.g. "disk0" raw_target_dev="/dev/rdisk0" # e.g. "/dev/rdisk0" ntfs_slice_num="3" # e.g. "3" ntfs_dev="/dev/disk0s3" # e.g. "/dev/disk0s3" ### SCRIPT ACTION ### # Resize the disk /usr/sbin/diskutil resizeVolume "$volume" $mac MS-DOS windows $windows # Determine, based on the target path passed to the script, what is the device # number of the NTFS partition on the same drive if [ "$root_target_disk" == "" ]; then root_target_disk=`df "$1" | awk '!/Filesystem/ {print $1}' | cut -c 6-10` fi root_target_dev=/dev/$root_target_disk echo "root_target_dev: $root_target_dev" if [ "$raw_target_dev" == "" ]; then raw_target_dev=/dev/r$root_target_disk fi echo "raw_target_dev: $raw_target_dev" if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "" ]; then ntfs_slice_num=`diskutil list $root_target_dev | awk 'BEGIN {disk = "nodisk"} {sub("disk\.s", "")} ($NF < 5 && /Microsoft Basic Data/) {disk = $NF} END {print disk}'` if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "nodisk" ]; then echo "Failed to determine the NTFS device slice number -- try adding it to the $0 script explicitly \(target disk is $root_target_dev\)" exit 1 fi fi echo "ntfs_slice_num: $ntfs_slice_num" if [ "$ntfs_dev" == "" ]; then ntfs_dev=/dev/disk0s$ntfs_slice_num fi echo "ntfs_dev: $ntfs_dev" echo "" echo "Unmounting the target disk..." diskutil unmount $ntfs_dev echo "Restoring disk image to target volume..." ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite "$ntfs_dev" "$ntfs_image" echo "Resizing target volume to partition limit..." ntfsresize -ff "$ntfs_dev" echo "Reading file that contains MBR..." ntfscat -f "$ntfs_dev" /WINDOWS/system32/dmadmin.exe > /tmp/dmadmin.exe echo "Harvesting MBR..." dd if=/tmp/dmadmin.exe of=/tmp/mbr skip=216616 count=446 bs=1 echo "Syncing GPT to BIOS partition table and restoring MBR..." gptrefresh -w -a $ntfs_slice_num -f -u -m /tmp/mbr $root_target_dev echo "Updating boot.ini partition number..." ntfscat -f $ntfs_dev /boot.ini > /tmp/boot.ini perl -p -i -e "s/partition\(.*\)/partition\($ntfs_slice_num\)/g" /tmp/boot.ini ntfscp -f $ntfs_dev /tmp/boot.ini /boot.ini echo "Mounting the target disk..." diskutil mount "$ntfs_dev" Maybe this ones differs from the one on my site I haven't done a side by side comparison ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Dorey, Dustin" 03/25/09 1:07 PM >>> Casper is able to deploy dual boot environments as well, my coworker here has been working on it and is currently out otherwise I?m sure he?d respond. And it doesn?t matter what imaging solution you use whether it?s Casper imaging or Deploy studio, certain things are going to be the same. You need to boot to something other than the drive your imaging so either way you?re netbooting or using a restore partition. You need to partition the drive, you need to format the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you use NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together in the resource kit much of what you?ll need to do dual boot deployments, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, One thing we?ve encountered is that it?s not too difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot deployment. But when you add in needing to do things like binding to AD etc? where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more difficult. Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuff. Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that here so I don?t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know that there are several people on this list serv that have done it and do regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I?d check the archives. There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from everything I?ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper environment. It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything it can do. With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked a couple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple SE?s I asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to bother with it if you have Casper available. It?s a step down. And you won?t have the great support that JAMF provides. It does make for a nice presentation and all since it is pretty, but in practice no matter what system you use to do the imaging you?re going to run into the same pitfalls that need to be overcome. Definitely check through the archives on this, check out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, maybe my co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can speak with more authority on the matter, but I?m not sure when that might be. From our conversations about how his testing and development of the process for our needs here I know he said that having to Bind to AD increased the amount of setup. But I can?t say why since I?ve been keeping my nose out of it while he worked on it. Good luck. Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM To: Jeff Strauss Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to create triple-boot machines! I gather that DeployStudio is the spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself. I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. Clinton Blackmore On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. Thanks for your continued help, everyone! Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/898d53e0/attachment.html From swood at integerdallas.com Wed Mar 25 13:01:42 2009 From: swood at integerdallas.com (Steve Wood) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:01:42 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items In-Reply-To: References: <438f5a310903251221k4c761012o108a365ceb82b77@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <438f5a310903251301t32a78477leda54b7ea459f61e@mail.gmail.com> Yeah, I made sure all of that was gone, including the Macromedia folder. I even did a restart of the machine to rule that out. Still the same, Exit Code 7. I found a post over on Adobe's site: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6edea This refers to Windows, but I'm sure the flag would work for Macintosh as well. However, I don't think I can 'trip' that flag since Casper is controlling the install. Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integerdallas.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Smith, William < william.smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote: > From: Steve Wood > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:21:53 -0500 > To: > Subject: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items > > > Any one have any idea why I would still be getting Exit Code 7 if all of > the > > CS3 suite was removed? > > Hi Steve! > > Look for Adobe remnants in the /Library folder. > > When I saw this message I believe I removed: > /Library/Application Support/Adobe (the whole folder) > /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin > /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/flashplayer.xpt > /Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* > > You might also consider: > /Library/Application Support/Macromedia > > That may be overkill, however. > > Hope this helps! > > -- > > bill > > William M. Smith, Technical Analyst > MCS IT > Merrill Communications, LLC > (651) 632-1492 > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/2e037948/attachment.htm From miles.leacy at themacadmin.com Wed Mar 25 13:03:07 2009 From: miles.leacy at themacadmin.com (Miles Leacy) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:03:07 -0400 Subject: [Casper] LDAP Binding Scripts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: You can also store AD bindings in your JSS. You can apply these bindings via imaging, remote or policy. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/25 > Jim, > There is AD binding settings that can be set in Casper Imaging on the > account tab or many scripts from the Resource Kit that can be used for LDAP, > AD, OD. > http://www.jamfsoftware.com/support/resourcekit.php > Specify the scripts to be "at Reboot" > -Nathaniel > > > > From: Jim Frye To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Date: 03/25/2009 > 02:25 PM Subject: [Casper] LDAP Binding Scripts Sent by: > casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ------------------------------ > > > > As part of the imaging process, are there any scripts that can be added to > the JSS to bind a machine to LDAP so that when it reboots it is bound to the > local LDAP? > > -- > Jim Frye > District Technology Coordinator > Upper Sandusky E.V. Schools > Upper Sandusky, OH 43351 > 419-310-2709_______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/e1d54cd9/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Wed Mar 25 13:18:07 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS Message-ID: Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and everything is good to go, but it's kind of obnoxious, and very random. It just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we're on spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. Thanks -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/7fc1031c/attachment.htm From cmyers at uclan.ac.uk Wed Mar 25 13:25:58 2009 From: cmyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:25:58 +0000 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: <49CA46C3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> <49CA46C3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <705A99D2-12F1-49AD-8539-00BDF9A03926@uclan.ac.uk> That's same as ur site and it don't work for me with my netinstall but I'd be interested in others experiences, I sent jeff mine so he can try both Cheers Criss On 25 Mar 2009, at 19:59, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > OK, I just pulled the script off my actual casper share, this is the > actual script we use to mass image our Macs. I image probably over > 100 per a month that go in and out for repair and of course 6,000 > every summer. All I have to do is netboot and autorun data takes > care of the rest > > #!/bin/sh > PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin > export PATH > > ## DISK PARTITIONING PARAMETERS > > volume='/Volumes/Macintosh HD' > mac='75%' > windows='24%' > > ## BOOT CAMP SOURCE IMAGE PARAMETERS > CasperShare="/Volumes/CasperShare" > ntfs_image="$CasperShare/Scripts/BootCamp.ntfs" > > > # Optionally, you can set the following values explicitly > root_target_disk="disk0" # e.g. "disk0" > raw_target_dev="/dev/rdisk0" # e.g. "/dev/rdisk0" > ntfs_slice_num="3" # e.g. "3" > ntfs_dev="/dev/disk0s3" # e.g. "/dev/disk0s3" > > > > ### SCRIPT ACTION ### > > > # Resize the disk > > /usr/sbin/diskutil resizeVolume "$volume" $mac MS-DOS windows $windows > > > # Determine, based on the target path passed to the script, what is > the device > # number of the NTFS partition on the same drive > > if [ "$root_target_disk" == "" ]; then > root_target_disk=`df "$1" | awk '!/Filesystem/ {print $1}' | cut - > c 6-10` > fi > root_target_dev=/dev/$root_target_disk > echo "root_target_dev: $root_target_dev" > > if [ "$raw_target_dev" == "" ]; then > raw_target_dev=/dev/r$root_target_disk > fi > echo "raw_target_dev: $raw_target_dev" > > if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "" ]; then > ntfs_slice_num=`diskutil list $root_target_dev | awk 'BEGIN {disk > = "nodisk"} {sub("disk\.s", "")} ($NF < 5 && /Microsoft Basic Data/) > {disk = $NF} END {print disk}'` > if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "nodisk" ]; then > echo "Failed to determine the NTFS device slice number -- try > adding it to the $0 script explicitly \(target disk is > $root_target_dev\)" > exit 1 > fi > fi > echo "ntfs_slice_num: $ntfs_slice_num" > > if [ "$ntfs_dev" == "" ]; then > ntfs_dev=/dev/disk0s$ntfs_slice_num > fi > echo "ntfs_dev: $ntfs_dev" > echo "" > > echo "Unmounting the target disk..." > diskutil unmount $ntfs_dev > > echo "Restoring disk image to target volume..." > ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite "$ntfs_dev" "$ntfs_image" > > echo "Resizing target volume to partition limit..." > ntfsresize -ff "$ntfs_dev" > > echo "Reading file that contains MBR..." > ntfscat -f "$ntfs_dev" /WINDOWS/system32/dmadmin.exe > /tmp/ > dmadmin.exe > > echo "Harvesting MBR..." > dd if=/tmp/dmadmin.exe of=/tmp/mbr skip=216616 count=446 bs=1 > > echo "Syncing GPT to BIOS partition table and restoring MBR..." > gptrefresh -w -a $ntfs_slice_num -f -u -m /tmp/mbr $root_target_dev > > echo "Updating boot.ini partition number..." > ntfscat -f $ntfs_dev /boot.ini > /tmp/boot.ini > perl -p -i -e "s/partition\(.*\)/partition\($ntfs_slice_num\)/g" / > tmp/boot.ini > ntfscp -f $ntfs_dev /tmp/boot.ini /boot.ini > > echo "Mounting the target disk..." > diskutil mount "$ntfs_dev" > > > Maybe this ones differs from the one on my site I haven't done a > side by side comparison > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> "Dorey, Dustin" 03/25/09 1:07 PM > >>> > > Casper is able to deploy dual boot environments as well, my coworker > here has been working on it and is currently out otherwise I?m sure > he?d respond. And it doesn?t matter what imaging solution you > use whether it?s Casper imaging or Deploy studio, certain things are > going to be the same. You need to boot to something other than th > e drive your imaging so either way you?re netbooting or using a rest > ore partition. You need to partition the drive, you need to format > the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you u > se NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together > in the resource kit much of what you?ll need to do dual boot deploym > ents, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, and > knowing Thomas I?m sure he will respond to this. > J > > One thing we?ve encountered is that it?s not too > difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot depl > oyment. But when you add in needing to do things like binding to A > D etc? where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more diff > icult. Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuf > f. Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that h > ere so I don?t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know tha > t there are several people on this list serv that have done it and d > o regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I?d check the archives. > > There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from > everything I?ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper e > nvironment. It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything it > can do. With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked a co > uple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple SE?s I > asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to bother with > it if you have Casper available. It?s a step down. And you won > ?t have the great support that JAMF provides. It does make for a > nice presentation and all since it is pretty, but in practice no mat > ter what system you use to do the imaging you?re going to run into t > he same pitfalls that need to be overcome. > > Definitely check through the archives on this, check > out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, maybe my > co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can speak with > more authority on the matter, but I?m not sure when that might be. > From our conversations about how his testing and development of the > process for our needs here I know he said that having to Bind to AD > increased the amount of setup. But I can?t say why since I?ve > been keeping my nose out of it while he worked on it. > > > > Good luck. > > > > Dustin Dorey > > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > > Independant School District 196 > > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > > dustin.dorey at district196.org > > 651|423|7971 > > > > > > > > From: > casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM > To: Jeff Strauss > Cc: Casper List > Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments > > My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, > they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to > create triple-boot machines! I gather that DeployStudio is the > spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself. > > I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. > > Clinton Blackmore > > > On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: > > > > Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I > ?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of > our software to be created during Casper Imaging. > > Thanks for your continued help, everyone! > > Jeffrey A. Strauss > Department of Educational Technology > Systems Administrator > Loyola High School of Los Angeles > 1901 Venice Blvd. > Los Angeles, Ca 90006 > (213) 381-5121 x265 > > ? Apple Certified Support Professional > ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator > > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > dy> > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090325/20bd187c/attachment.html From jorge at nyu.edu Wed Mar 25 14:00:27 2009 From: jorge at nyu.edu (jorge a. najera-ordonez) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:00:27 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: <705A99D2-12F1-49AD-8539-00BDF9A03926@uclan.ac.uk> References: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> <49CA46C3.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <705A99D2-12F1-49AD-8539-00BDF9A03926@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: i could not get it working either while netbooting. it kept failing when it went to lay down the windows image (it partitioned fine) even though the ntfsprogs apps were all in the right locations and they were in my path. my solution was to run it once the machine was booted either by policy or casper remote but i manually mount the casper share in the script with the following lines: mkdir /Volumes/CasperShare mount_afp afp://login:password at your.address.here/CasperShare /Volumes/ Caspershare this has worked fine for us. i also modified it a bit to modify the log output so it can be monitored jorge a. najera-ordonez On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Criss Myers wrote: > That's same as ur site and it don't work for me with my netinstall > but I'd be interested in others experiences, I sent jeff mine so he > can try both > > Cheers > > Criss > > On 25 Mar 2009, at 19:59, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > >> OK, I just pulled the script off my actual casper share, this is >> the actual script we use to mass image our Macs. I image probably >> over 100 per a month that go in and out for repair and of course >> 6,000 every summer. All I have to do is netboot and autorun data >> takes care of the rest >> >> #!/bin/sh >> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin >> export PATH >> >> ## DISK PARTITIONING PARAMETERS >> >> volume='/Volumes/Macintosh HD' >> mac='75%' >> windows='24%' >> >> ## BOOT CAMP SOURCE IMAGE PARAMETERS >> CasperShare="/Volumes/CasperShare" >> ntfs_image="$CasperShare/Scripts/BootCamp.ntfs" >> >> >> # Optionally, you can set the following values explicitly >> root_target_disk="disk0" # e.g. "disk0" >> raw_target_dev="/dev/rdisk0" # e.g. "/dev/rdisk0" >> ntfs_slice_num="3" # e.g. "3" >> ntfs_dev="/dev/disk0s3" # e.g. "/dev/disk0s3" >> >> >> >> ### SCRIPT ACTION ### >> >> >> # Resize the disk >> >> /usr/sbin/diskutil resizeVolume "$volume" $mac MS-DOS windows >> $windows >> >> >> # Determine, based on the target path passed to the script, what is >> the device >> # number of the NTFS partition on the same drive >> >> if [ "$root_target_disk" == "" ]; then >> root_target_disk=`df "$1" | awk '!/Filesystem/ {print $1}' | cut >> -c 6-10` >> fi >> root_target_dev=/dev/$root_target_disk >> echo "root_target_dev: $root_target_dev" >> >> if [ "$raw_target_dev" == "" ]; then >> raw_target_dev=/dev/r$root_target_disk >> fi >> echo "raw_target_dev: $raw_target_dev" >> >> if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "" ]; then >> ntfs_slice_num=`diskutil list $root_target_dev | awk 'BEGIN >> {disk = "nodisk"} {sub("disk\.s", "")} ($NF < 5 && /Microsoft Basic >> Data/) {disk = $NF} END {print disk}'` >> if [ "$ntfs_slice_num" == "nodisk" ]; then >> echo "Failed to determine the NTFS device slice number -- try >> adding it to the $0 script explicitly \(target disk is >> $root_target_dev\)" >> exit 1 >> fi >> fi >> echo "ntfs_slice_num: $ntfs_slice_num" >> >> if [ "$ntfs_dev" == "" ]; then >> ntfs_dev=/dev/disk0s$ntfs_slice_num >> fi >> echo "ntfs_dev: $ntfs_dev" >> echo "" >> >> echo "Unmounting the target disk..." >> diskutil unmount $ntfs_dev >> >> echo "Restoring disk image to target volume..." >> ntfsclone --restore-image --overwrite "$ntfs_dev" "$ntfs_image" >> >> echo "Resizing target volume to partition limit..." >> ntfsresize -ff "$ntfs_dev" >> >> echo "Reading file that contains MBR..." >> ntfscat -f "$ntfs_dev" /WINDOWS/system32/dmadmin.exe > /tmp/ >> dmadmin.exe >> >> echo "Harvesting MBR..." >> dd if=/tmp/dmadmin.exe of=/tmp/mbr skip=216616 count=446 bs=1 >> >> echo "Syncing GPT to BIOS partition table and restoring MBR..." >> gptrefresh -w -a $ntfs_slice_num -f -u -m /tmp/mbr $root_target_dev >> >> echo "Updating boot.ini partition number..." >> ntfscat -f $ntfs_dev /boot.ini > /tmp/boot.ini >> perl -p -i -e "s/partition\(.*\)/partition\($ntfs_slice_num\)/g" / >> tmp/boot.ini >> ntfscp -f $ntfs_dev /tmp/boot.ini /boot.ini >> >> echo "Mounting the target disk..." >> diskutil mount "$ntfs_dev" >> >> >> Maybe this ones differs from the one on my site I haven't done a >> side by side comparison >> >> >> ___________________________ >> Thomas Larkin >> TIS Department >> KCKPS USD500 >> tlarki at kckps.org >> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >> office: 913-627-0351 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> "Dorey, Dustin" 03/25/09 1:07 PM >> >>> >> >> Casper is able to deploy dual boot environments as well, my >> coworker here has been working on it and is currently out otherwise >> I?m sure he?d respond. And it doesn?t matter what imaging >> solution you use whether it?s Casper imaging or Deploy studio, >> certain things are going to be the same. You need to boot to >> something other than the drive your imaging so either way you?re >> netbooting or using a restore partition. You need to partition >> the drive, you need to format the partitions correctly (NTFS for >> the windows side I believe you use NTFSprog ) and lay down the >> images (configsJAMF has put together in the resource kit much of >> what you?ll need to do dual boot deployments, and Thomas Larkin >> also has some resources on his website, and knowing Thomas I?m >> sure he will respond to this. >> J >> >> One thing we?ve encountered is that it?s not too >> difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot >> deployment. But when you add in needing to do things like binding >> to AD etc? where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit >> more difficult. Then you really have to start messing with Sys >> Prep and stuff. Again my co-worker has been doing the work on >> developing that here so I don?t have the intimate knowledge he >> has, but I do know that there are several people on this list serv >> that have done it and do regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so >> I?d check the archives. >> >> There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from >> everything I?ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper >> environment. It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything >> it can do. With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked >> a couple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple >> SE?s I asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to >> bother with it if you have Casper available. It?s a step >> down. And you won?t have the great support that JAMF >> provides. It does make for a nice presentation and all since it >> is pretty, but in practice no matter what system you use to do the >> imaging you?re going to run into the same pitfalls that need to be >> overcome. >> >> Definitely check through the archives on this, >> check out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, >> maybe my co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can >> speak with more authority on the matter, but I?m not sure when >> that might be. From our conversations about how his testing and >> development of the process for our needs here I know he said that >> having to Bind to AD increased the amount of setup. But I can?t >> say why since I?ve been keeping my nose out of it while he worked >> on it. >> >> >> >> Good luck. >> >> >> >> Dustin Dorey >> >> Technology Support Cluster Specialist >> >> Independant School District 196 >> >> Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools >> >> dustin.dorey at district196.org >> >> 651|423|7971 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: >> casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com >> ] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore >> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM >> To: Jeff Strauss >> Cc: Casper List >> Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments >> >> My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a >> lab, they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/ >> Home.html ) to create triple-boot machines! I gather that >> DeployStudio is the spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't >> used it myself. >> >> I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. >> >> Clinton Blackmore >> >> >> On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: >> >> >> >> Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? >> I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all >> of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. >> >> Thanks for your continued help, everyone! >> >> Jeffrey A. Strauss >> Department of Educational Technology >> Systems Administrator >> Loyola High School of Los Angeles >> 1901 Venice Blvd. >> Los Angeles, Ca 90006 >> (213) 381-5121 x265 >> >> ? Apple Certified Support Professional >> ? 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I don't have any scripts for ED/AD as of yet, because I haven't needed them yet. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Miles Leacy 03/25/09 3:06 PM >>> You can also store AD bindings in your JSS. You can apply these bindings via imaging, remote or policy. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ? Certified System Administrator ? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/25 > Jim, > There is AD binding settings that can be set in Casper Imaging on the > account tab or many scripts from the Resource Kit that can be used for LDAP, > AD, OD. > http://www.jamfsoftware.com/support/resourcekit.php > Specify the scripts to be "at Reboot" > -Nathaniel > > > > From: Jim Frye To: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com Date: 03/25/2009 > 02:25 PM Subject: [Casper] LDAP Binding Scripts Sent by: > casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > ------------------------------ > > > > As part of the imaging process, are there any scripts that can be added to > the JSS to bind a machine to LDAP so that when it reboots it is bound to the > local LDAP? > > -- > Jim Frye > District Technology Coordinator > Upper Sandusky E.V. Schools > Upper Sandusky, OH 43351 > 419-310-2709_______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Wed Mar 25 16:24:20 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:24:20 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items In-Reply-To: <438f5a310903251301t32a78477leda54b7ea459f61e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: I checked the CS4 enterprise manual deployment user guide and it only shows that switch for Windows, not Mac. You?d probably be banging your head against the wall trying to get that switch to work. I bet you?re probably banging your head against the wall anyway. :-Z -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT Merrill Communications, LLC (651) 632-1492 From: Steve Wood Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:01:42 -0500 To: William Smith Cc: Subject: Re: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items Yeah, I made sure all of that was gone, including the Macromedia folder.? I even did a restart of the machine to rule that out.? Still the same, Exit Code 7. I found a post over on Adobe's site: http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b6edea This refers to Windows, but I'm sure the flag would work for Macintosh as well.? However, I don't think I can 'trip' that flag since Casper is controlling the install. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Smith, William wrote: > From: Steve Wood > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:21:53 -0500 > To: > Subject: [Casper] Installing More Adobe CS3 Items > >> > Any one have any idea why I would still be getting Exit Code 7 if all of >> the >> > CS3 suite was removed? > > Hi Steve! > > Look for Adobe remnants in the /Library folder. > > When I saw this message I believe I removed: > ? ?/Library/Application Support/Adobe (the whole folder) > ? ?/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Flash Player.plugin > ? ?/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/flashplayer.xpt > ? ?/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.* > > You might also consider: > ? ?/Library/Application Support/Macromedia > > That may be overkill, however. > > Hope this helps! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The postflight script runs sethidden and does its work. j On 3/26/09 05:05 , "Criss Myers" wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to find the SetHidden file on a Leopard install disk or does anyone have a copy for leopard The instructions to go to the OSIntall.mpkg on the install disk dont work as the OSInstall.mpkg is not a directory with contents, at least not on my disk Criss Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/f7975d55/attachment.htm From aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org Thu Mar 26 07:16:57 2009 From: aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org (Brad Rellinger) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:16:57 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Netboot and casper In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49CB8E59.8010703@nwoca.org> I know this is an old post - but I am trying to setup a Tiger NetBoot Set that auto-launches and logs into Casper Imaging, as explained below. The problem I am having is that I am unable to get Casper Imaging to read the saved username and password from root's Keychain. 1) Launch Casper Imaging (logged in as root) 2) Enter my jss username and password and check 'Store in Keychain' 3) Open Keychain Access and make sure it is there (it is) 4) Relaunch Casper Imaging - it gets to "Accessing Keychain" but then it asks for the username and password again even though it is already stored in the Keychain. Has anyone else seen this? Correct me if I'm wrong - but the Casper NetInstall Image Creator from the Resource Kit does not allow me to create a 10.4.x NetInstall Set. Thanks -------- Brad Rellinger Technology Specialist Anthony Wayne Schools K-12 aw_aca_bre at nwoca.org Miles Leacy wrote: > In the past, I've done the following: > 1. Set up a configuration with the base OS and the Casper tools. > 2. Apply it to a test box & boot it > 3. Enable root, set root to autologin > 3. Store the JSS credentials in root's keychain > 4. Set Casper Imaging as a login item for root. > 5. Create a Netboot image from this box. > > I would be careful, because if you boot a machine that has autorun data > with this image, it will boot, autologin as root, and then begin > imaging. But it sounds like that's what you want. > > I said I did this in the past. What I've just started using is the > Casper NetInstall Image Creator from the Resource Kit. This more or > less gets you to the same place with fewer steps. > > -- > Miles A. Leacy IV > ---------- > ? Certified System Administrator 10.4 > ? Certified Technical Coordinator 10.5 > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > 2008/12/5 Bozorgzadeh, Amir J > > > Ok I did this in the past and for the life of me I cannot remember how. > > I am trying to create a netboot image. It will then autolaunch the > Casper Imaging tool by placing it in my startup items of the netboot > image. I got it all worked out up until... How do I set up the > Casper Imaging tool to keep the settings so it installs my Base OS > and other packages I want added to the base image on my client mac? > Every time it launches from the startup it goes back to default > settings. Is there documentation on the jamfsoftware website on how > to do this? They talk about it briefly on the Support FAQ's but no > links or anything on how to set it up. I am looking for a "zero > touch" type solution. > > Hope that all makes sense. > > Thanks for any of your help. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Amir Bozorgzadeh > Campus Technology Services > University of Iowa > 2800 UCC > Iowa City, Iowa 52242 > 319-335-5480 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper From Halvorson.Jason at mayo.edu Thu Mar 26 08:12:24 2009 From: Halvorson.Jason at mayo.edu (Jason Halvorson) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:12:24 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Which version of the JSS do you have? Jason D. Halvorson Analyst/Programmer Workstation Support Services Phone: 507-538-4225 Email: halvorson.jason at mayo.edu ____________________________ Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 www.mayoclinic.org From: "Dorey, Dustin" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and everything is good to go, but it?s kind of obnoxious, and very random. It just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we?re on spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. Thanks -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/f2a03bdc/attachment.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu Mar 26 08:44:13 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:44:13 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Casper Suite 6.01 Web App memory set to just a tick under 2GB Database Size: 1.7 G Max Packet size set to 6MB Tomcat Min. Memory 256; max 2048 Server has 8Gb total From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jason Halvorson Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS Which version of the JSS do you have? Jason D. Halvorson Analyst/Programmer Workstation Support Services Phone: 507-538-4225 Email: halvorson.jason at mayo.edu ____________________________ Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 www.mayoclinic.org ________________________________ From: "Dorey, Dustin" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and everything is good to go, but it's kind of obnoxious, and very random. It just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we're on spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. Thanks -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/43623c8a/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 26 08:50:54 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:50:54 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: What and how often do you have scheduled tasks setup for, and how many clients would hit any of those scheduled tasks at any given time. I'm wondering if your hitting your JSS too much with the clients. Craig E On 3/26/09 10:44 AM, "Dorey, Dustin" wrote: Casper Suite 6.01 Web App memory set to just a tick under 2GB Database Size: 1.7 G Max Packet size set to 6MB Tomcat Min. Memory 256; max 2048 Server has 8Gb total From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jason Halvorson Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS Which version of the JSS do you have? Jason D. Halvorson Analyst/Programmer Workstation Support Services Phone: 507-538-4225 Email: halvorson.jason at mayo.edu ____________________________ Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 www.mayoclinic.org ________________________________ From: "Dorey, Dustin" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and everything is good to go, but it's kind of obnoxious, and very random. It just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we're on spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. Thanks -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/7159a57e/attachment.htm From NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org Thu Mar 26 08:47:00 2009 From: NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org (NATHANIEL.LINDLEY at spps.org) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:47:00 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Dusty, I increased the Mac Packet size to 16 MB at one point and that seemed to help. I also have up to 4480 MB Ram available to tomcat. -Nathaniel Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS Ernst, Craig S. to: Dorey, Dustin, Jason Halvorson , Casper List 03/26/2009 10:42 AM Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com What and how often do you have scheduled tasks setup for, and how many clients would hit any of those scheduled tasks at any given time. I?m wondering if your hitting your JSS too much with the clients. Craig E On 3/26/09 10:44 AM, "Dorey, Dustin" wrote: Casper Suite 6.01 Web App memory set to just a tick under 2GB Database Size: 1.7 G Max Packet size set to 6MB Tomcat Min. Memory 256; max 2048 Server has 8Gb total From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [ mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jason Halvorson Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS Which version of the JSS do you have? Jason D. Halvorson Analyst/Programmer Workstation Support Services Phone: 507-538-4225 Email: halvorson.jason at mayo.edu ____________________________ Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 www.mayoclinic.org From: "Dorey, Dustin" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and everything is good to go, but it?s kind of obnoxious, and very random. It just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we?re on spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. Thanks -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/393419f0/attachment-0001.html From Dustin.Dorey at district196.org Thu Mar 26 09:06:06 2009 From: Dustin.Dorey at district196.org (Dorey, Dustin) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:06:06 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Well that was my thought at first too, except when it just happened yesterday, and we are on spring break. Most of our client machines are off. That being said we have only one scheduled task scoped to all of our computers and randomized by 45 minutes with just under 5k clients. We set that one up on our roll out and I haven't messed with it since. Just seems weird that it would still hang due to that even though most of the clients are off and not reporting in anyway. I'll try increasing the packet size again, not sure that I can change the everyhour bit though since I don't want to set it to report only one day a week or something. And there are not any options in scheduled tasks to do like every 3 hours and randomize by 2 hours or something. Thanks for the tips, -Dusty- From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:51 AM To: Dorey, Dustin; Jason Halvorson; Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS What and how often do you have scheduled tasks setup for, and how many clients would hit any of those scheduled tasks at any given time. I'm wondering if your hitting your JSS too much with the clients. Craig E On 3/26/09 10:44 AM, "Dorey, Dustin" wrote: Casper Suite 6.01 Web App memory set to just a tick under 2GB Database Size: 1.7 G Max Packet size set to 6MB Tomcat Min. Memory 256; max 2048 Server has 8Gb total From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jason Halvorson Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:12 AM To: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS Which version of the JSS do you have? Jason D. Halvorson Analyst/Programmer Workstation Support Services Phone: 507-538-4225 Email: halvorson.jason at mayo.edu ____________________________ Mayo Clinic 200 First Street SW Rochester, MN 55905 www.mayoclinic.org ________________________________ From: "Dorey, Dustin" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 To: Casper List Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and everything is good to go, but it's kind of obnoxious, and very random. It just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we're on spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. Thanks -Dusty- Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/6b6e5fa3/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 26 10:46:36 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching In-Reply-To: References: <49C37D5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp no dice. here is my apple script tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548" end tell This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint" end tell I would be golden! Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> John Wetter 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> Tom, From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: ( http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1 ) And then to: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print ( http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print ) You can run: $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES This is for older Novell servers that don???t have Universal passwords set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the case, I can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this. if (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then --test to see if volume is already mounted then tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" end tell end if --hide volume from desktops so it doesn???t get messed with do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" do shell script "killall Finder" tell application "System Events" to delay 2 tell application "Finder" open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk end tell Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like the jamf mount ???hidden command but this doesn???t seem to hide it from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don???t use it for testing. -John On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one time. I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like suggested and see if it makes a difference. Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. tom >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. --------miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and takes care of the rest. It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works. I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/2009 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint"' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com > From: Thomas Larkin > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin >, > Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Well A bit of progress, but not in the rSo this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 > /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" > 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. 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$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_c= leartext_warn" -bool YES

This is for older Novell servers that = don’t have Universal passwords set up on them (they really = should, but I doubt I need to tell you that).

For then = doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is = NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests.  = If this is the case, I can send them along off-list, let me = know.  Or, for opening single apps that require a mount = point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app = bundle so we can brand it and use it.  Below is sample code for = this.

if

(list disks) does not contain "VolumeName"<= font face=3D"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> then
   --test to see if volume is already = mounted then
   tell application "Finder"
 = 60;     mount volume "= ;afp://user:pa= ssword at server.domain.org/VolumeName"
   end tell
end if
--hide volume from desktops so it doesn’t get messed with
do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName"
do shell script "killall Finder"
tell application "System Events" to delay&nb= sp;2
tell application "Finder"
   open file = ;"Applications:MyApp&q= uot; of startup disk
end tell


Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the = developer tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop.  = ;It works much like the jamf mount –hidden command but this = doesn’t seem to hide it from finder like the jamf one does (which= changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume.  We = use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don’t use it = for testing.

-John


On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas = Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> = wrote:

  

 

I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 = clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it permanentl= y mounted.  In my experience with this testing app from last = year is that it works best if you stagger connections and testing sessions = to say, no more than 400 clients at one time.  

   

      = 60;

 

I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line = like suggested and see if it makes a difference.

   

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Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. =

   

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tom


>>> Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>>
A= re you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via = Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the = top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a = dscl script.

----------
Miles A. Leacy IV

 = Certified System Administrator
 Certified Trainer
Certified = Casper Administrator
----------
voice: 1-347-277-7321
miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
www= .themacadmin.com <http://www.them= acadmin.com>




    
  

 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin     =  
 
 

 <tl= arki at kckps.org>        
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Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these = shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I = know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it = does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have = universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to = SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. =

         
 = ;

 
 
 

 

So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share = just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there = is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS = running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for = these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting = the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how = well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is = getting shorter and shorter.

         
 = ;

 
 
 

 

I just want to create a generic account, grant it access = to this one particular file on a network share so the application can = write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the = application launches and takes care of the rest.

         
 = ;

 
 
 

 

It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, = want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the = work done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works. =

         
 = ;

 
 
 

 

I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by = the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. =

         
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TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
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office:= 913-627-0351





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 I = think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, = right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user = name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user = log in rather then the shell.

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How about something = like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any = problems:

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Yaniv Lugassy
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From: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org <ht= tp://tlarki at kckps.org> >
Date: = Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500
To: Thomas Larkin <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org <http://TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org> >, <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <http://casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> >
Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self = service mount points, and app launching

Well




A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can = mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp = command I can never get it to work. I always get this error:
=




mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118
=




So this is my method of doing this from the terminal:
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mkdir /Volumes/FS106




/Volumes/FS106




I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just = auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if = that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the = app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look = for the database file.




Any help would be appreciated






___________________________
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>>> "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org<= /font>

<http://tlarki at kckps.org> > 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>&g= t;



Well







This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some = old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must = have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on = each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self = service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database = files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out = where to look.







I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in = interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I = can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for = about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the = app in question.







I have the app configured and it works when I do everything = manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the = end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just = create one generic user account that can have access to this database file = and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount = under the hood with out the user's actual credentials.
=







Thanks for any advice.




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--=__Part3911B66C.1__=-- From swood at integerdallas.com Thu Mar 26 10:53:48 2009 From: swood at integerdallas.com (Steve Wood) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:53:48 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching In-Reply-To: <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49C37D5D.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <438f5a310903261053v14f7540dj712b56e1194e8181@mail.gmail.com> I haven't tried this against Novell, but this is an AS that I used at my prior employer for keeping a server volume mounted on a Mass Transit server. Just edit the the variables: --remember this info property TimeToSleep : 900 -- How many seconds until we check again property MyIP : "10.49.50.2" property ServerList : {"WIP", "MASSTRANSIT"} property MyUser : "user" property MyPassword : "password" --start work on double-click on run tell application "Finder" to tell me to idle end run --as server watcher on idle --start work on double-click tell application "Finder" --look for mounted volumes repeat with MyVolume in ServerList try set test to disk (MyVolume) as alias on error with timeout of 15 seconds try --mount by TCP/IP mount volume "afp://" & MyUser & ":" & MyPassword & "@" & MyIP & "/" & MyVolume & "/" end try end timeout end try end repeat end tell try tell application "Mass Transit" to activate end try return TimeToSleep -- sleep time in seconds end idle Hope that helps. Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integerdallas.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2009/3/26 Thomas Larkin > Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man > pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. > > If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I > mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp > no dice. > > here is my apple script > > tell application "finder" > > mount volume "*afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548* > " > > end tell > > This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add > the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out > a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work > > tell application "finder" > > mount volume "*afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint* > " > > end tell > > I would be golden! > > Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper > fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? > > Thanks, > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> John Wetter 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> > > Tom, > > From here: > http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1 > And then to: > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print > > You can run: > $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES > $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES > > This is for older Novell servers that don?t have Universal passwords set up > on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). > > For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is > NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the > case, I can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single > apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and > then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is > sample code for this. > > *if* > > (list disks) *does not* *contain* "VolumeName" *then > * --test to see if volume is already mounted then > *tell* application "Finder" > mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" > *end* *tell > end* *if > *--hide volume from desktops so it doesn?t get messed with > do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" > do shell script "killall Finder" > *tell* application "System Events" *to* delay 2 > *tell* application "Finder" > open file "Applications:MyApp" *of* startup disk > *end* *tell > * > > > Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer > tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like > the jamf mount ?hidden command but this doesn?t seem to hide it from finder > like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the > volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don?t use it > for testing. > > -John > > > On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > > > > > > I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the > share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my > experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you > stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at > one time. > > > > > > > > I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like > suggested and see if it makes a difference. > > > > > > > > Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. > > > > > > > > tom > > > >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> > Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via > Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top > of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > > > > > 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on > old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version > of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support > encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords > enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not > really a part of that project. Different network admins. > > > > > > > > > > > So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't > connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. > DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy > systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this > point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my > Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my > window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. > > > > > > > > > > > I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one > particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the > database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and > takes care of the rest. > > > > > > > > > > > It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end > user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under > the hood. That way they just click and it works. > > > > > > > > > > > I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end > user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. > > > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > > > > >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM > >>> > > > > > > > > > I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so > actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. > that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. > > eric winkelhake > mundocomww > office 312 220 1669 > cell 312 504 5155 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Yaniv Lugassy > > > > Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > > > > 03/19/2009 05:23 PM > > > > > > To > > > > > > Thomas Larkin > >, Thomas Larkin , < > casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> > > > > cc > > > > > > > > > Subject > > > > > > Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you > without any problems: > > osascript -e 'mount volume "*afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint**"* > ' > > > > Yaniv Lugassy > *Promedia Technology Services, Inc. > *Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 > Fax: 973.253.5601 > www.promedianj.com <*http://www.promedianj.com > * * *> > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *Thomas Larkin <*tlarki at kckps.org* * < > http://tlarki at kckps.org> *> > *Date: *Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 > *To: *Thomas Larkin <*TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org* > * *>, <* > casper at list.jamfsoftware.com* * < > http://casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> *> > *Subject: *Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app > launching > > > > Well > > > > > A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share > fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never > get it to work. I always get this error: > > > > > mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 > > > > > So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: > > > > > mkdir /Volumes/FS106 > > > > > mount_afp *afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10* > > <*mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10* > > *> > *> > > /Volumes/FS106 > > > > > I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via > a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is > mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have > location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. > > > > > Any help would be appreciated > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > *tlarki at kckps.org* * > *blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> "Thomas Larkin" <*tlarki at kckps.org* > > * *> 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> > > > > Well > > > > > > > > This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell > servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in > using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account > to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and > have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the > app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. > > > > > > > > I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode > it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI > based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user > authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. > > > > > > > > I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, > but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they > don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user > account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic > password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the > user's actual credentials. > > > > > > > > Thanks for any advice. > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > *tlarki at kckps.org* * > *blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > *Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com* * < > http://Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper* > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Disclaimer > The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary > and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. 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URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/64bf4baf/attachment.html From ylugassy at promedianj.com Thu Mar 26 11:21:23 2009 From: ylugassy at promedianj.com (Yaniv Lugassy) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:21:23 -0400 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching In-Reply-To: <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: I seem to have luck using this in applescript: mount volume ?afp://servername/sharepoint? as user name ?myusername? with password ?mypassword? Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the sharepoint name is case sensitive. Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA Apple Systems Engineer Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 www.promedianj.com Fax: 973.253.5601 *Please call 973-774-1120 or e-mail support at promedianj.com for technical support and assistance from your Promedia support team* *For all other calls, please contact our Main Number: 973-253-7600 From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500 To: John Wetter , Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp no dice. here is my apple script tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548 " end tell This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint " end tell I would be golden! Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> John Wetter 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> Tom, From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: You can run: $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES This is for older Novell servers that don=B9t have Universal passwords set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?= ) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. =A0If this is the case, I ca= n send them along off-list, let me know. =A0Or, for opening single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. =A0Below is sample code for this. =20 =20 =20 =20 if =20 =20 =20 =20 (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then =A0=A0=A0--test to see if volume is already mounted then =A0=A0=A0tell application "Finder" =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" =A0=A0=A0end tell end if --hide volume from desktops so it doesn=B9t get messed with do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" do shell script "killall Finder" tell application "System Events" to delay 2 tell application "Finder" =A0=A0=A0open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk end tell =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. =A0It works much like the jamf mount=A0=ADhidden command but this doesn=B9t seem to hide it from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume. =A0We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don=B9t use it for testing. -John On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: =20 =20 =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > =A0=A0 >=20 > =A0 =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the s= hare > at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. =A0In my experience w= ith > this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger > connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one = time. > =A0 =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >=20 > =A0 =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like sugg= ested > and see if it makes a difference. > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >=20 > =A0 =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >=20 > =A0 =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > tom > =20 > =20 > =20 > =20 >=20 > =20 >>>> >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> > Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via > Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the to= p of > my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. >=20 > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV >=20 > =95 Certified System Administrator > =95 Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > =A0=A0=A0=A0 > =A0 > =A0 >=20 > =A02009/3/20 Thomas Larkin =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 > =A0 > =A0 >=20 > =A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 > =A0 > =A0 >=20 > =A0 > =A0 > =A0 > =20 > =20 > =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are= on >> old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what ver= sion >> of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support >> encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords en= abled >> and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a= part >> of that project. Different network admins. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't >> connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference= . DNS >> is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy syste= ms, >> which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in= time >> I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac serve= rs >> instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to g= et >> this working is getting shorter and shorter. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one >> particular file on a network share so the application can write data to = the >> database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches a= nd >> takes care of the rest. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the e= nd >> user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them u= nder >> the hood. That way they just click and it works. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end = user. >> I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0___________________________ >> Thomas Larkin >> TIS Department >> KCKPS USD500 >> tlarki at kckps.org >> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >> office: 913-627-0351 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0>>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >= >> >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? = so >> actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password p= art. >> that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the she= ll. >>=20 >> eric winkelhake >> mundocomww >> office 312 220 1669 >> cell 312 504 5155 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >> =A0=A0 >> =A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Yaniv Lugassy > =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >>> > >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> 03/19/2009 05:23 PM >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> To =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Thomas Larkin > =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >>> >, Thomas Larkin , >>> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> cc =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Subject =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launchin= g >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0=A0 >> =A0=A0=A0 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 >> =A0 =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for y= ou >> without any problems: >>=20 >> osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint >> "' >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> Yaniv Lugassy >> Promedia Technology Services, Inc. >> Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 >> Fax: 973.253.5601 >> www.promedianj.com > > >>=20 >>=20 >> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 >> =A0 >>=20 >> =A0 >>=20 >> From: Thomas Larkin >> > >> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 >> To: Thomas Larkin > = >, >> >> > >> Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app >> launching >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Well >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the shar= e >> fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can neve= r get >> it to work. I always get this error: >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> mkdir /Volumes/FS106 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> > >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> > >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> /Volumes/FS106 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps vi= a a >> script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is >> mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will h= ave >> location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Any help would be appreciated >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> ___________________________ >> Thomas Larkin >> TIS Department >> KCKPS USD500 >> tlarki at kckps.org >> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >> office: 913-627-0351 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >>>>> >>> "Thomas Larkin" >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> > 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> Well >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell >> servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users lo= g in >> using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user accou= nt to >> allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and = have >> it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app'= s >> preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> =20 >>=20 >> I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode= it >> always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GU= I >> based dialog box. 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I seem to have luck using this in applescript:

mount volume “afp://servername/= sharepoint” as user name “myusername” with password &#= 8220;mypassword”

Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the sharepo= int name is case sensitive.


Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA
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From: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500
To: John Wetter <john_wet= ter at hopkins.k12.mn.us>, Casper List <Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and = applaunching

   

 Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this.  = ;According the man pages and everything I google I am doing this right but i= t is not working.    

       

 If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no i= ssues.  If I mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I moun= t it via mount_afp no dice.    

       

 here is my apple script   &n= bsp;

       

 tell application "finder"    

       

 mount volume "afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548= <mailto:afp://= username:password at x.x.x.x:548> "  &nb= sp; 

       

 end tell =    

       

 This works but there are three share points on this server, = and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist= or spits out a syntax error.  Now if I could get this to work    

       

 tell application "finder"    

       

 mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/shar= epoint <mailto:afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint> "    

       

 end tell =    

       

 I would be golden!    

       

 Any advice?  Any Novell wizards around here?  Also= , how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them?    

       

 Thanks,


___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351





>>> John Wetter <john_w= etter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>>
    
 
 

 Tom,

From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: &sliceId=3D1
And then to:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=3D20071028025409750&= amp;mode=3Dprint

You can run:
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow"= -bool YES
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" = -bool YES

This is for older Novell servers that don’t have Universal passwords = set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that).
For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?= ) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. =A0If this is the case, I c= an send them along off-list, let me know. =A0Or, for opening single apps that = require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it = as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. =A0Below is sample code for th= is.

      
 
 

 if      
 


 (list disks)<= /FONT> <= FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">does not contain "VolumeNam= e" then
=A0=A0=A0--test to see if volume= is already mounted then
=A0=A0=A0tell application "Finde= r"
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0mount volume "afp:/= /user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName"
=A0=A0=A0end tell
end if
--hide volume from= desktops so it doesn’t get messed with
do shel= l script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeN= ame"
do shell script "killall = Finder"
tell application = "System Events" to delay 2
tell application = "Finder"
=A0=A0=A0open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk
= end tell
  &n= bsp;   
 
 

 
 Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the develope= r tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. =A0It works much like= the jamf mount=A0–hidden command but this doesn’t seem to hide it= from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can st= ill see the volume. =A0We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but do= n’t use it for testing.

-John


On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

      
 
 
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 I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing th= e share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. =A0In my experie= nce with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagge= r connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one t= ime. =A0        
 
 

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=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0

=A0        
 
 

 I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like s= uggested and see if it makes a difference.      &nb= sp; 
 
 

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=A0        
 
 

 Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated.   =      
 
 

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 Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares a= re on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what v= ersion of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not suppor= t encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enab= led and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a= part of that project. Different network admins.     &nb= sp;    
 
 

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 So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can'= t connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. = DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy syste= ms, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in= time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac ser= vers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to = get this working is getting shorter and shorter.     &nb= sp;    
 
 

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 I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one = particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the = database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and t= akes care of the rest.          = ;
 
 

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To: Thomas Larkin <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org> <http://TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org> >, <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <casper at list.jamfsoftware.co= m> = <http://casper at list.jamfsof= tware.com> >
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 A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the sh= are fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can neve= r get it to work. I always get this error:
          
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps = via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is= mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have= location specific configuration for where to look for the database file.           
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

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 This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novel= l servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log = in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user accoun= t to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and= have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the ap= p's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look.
          
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mo= de it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a = GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the = user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question.
          
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually,= but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so the= y don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user ac= count that can have access to this database file and then use that generic p= assword in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the use= r's actual credentials.
          
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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 --B_3320922085_3085087-- From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 26 11:30:15 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:30:15 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, andapplaunching In-Reply-To: References: <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <49CB8367.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> What is the difference between yours and mine, which is: tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x/sharepoint" end tell I mean isn't it essentially the same thing? >>> Yaniv Lugassy 03/26/09 1:21 PM >>> I seem to have luck using this in applescript: mount volume ?afp://servername/sharepoint? as user name ?myusername? with password ?mypassword? Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the sharepoint name is case sensitive. Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA Apple Systems Engineer Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 www.promedianj.com Fax: 973.253.5601 *Please call 973-774-1120 or e-mail support at promedianj.com for technical support and assistance from your Promedia support team* *For all other calls, please contact our Main Number: 973-253-7600 From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500 To: John Wetter , Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp no dice. here is my apple script tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548 " end tell This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint " end tell I would be golden! Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> John Wetter 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> Tom, From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: ( http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1 ) And then to: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print ( http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print ) You can run: $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES This is for older Novell servers that don???t have Universal passwords set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the case, I can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this. if (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then --test to see if volume is already mounted then tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at stell application "System Events" to delay 2 tell application "Finder" open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk end tell Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like the jamf mount ???hidden command but this doesn???t seem to hide it from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don???t use it for testing. -John On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one time. I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like suggested and see if it makes a difference. Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. tom >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ??? Certified System Administrator ??? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and takes care of the rest. It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click and it works. I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-6so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/2009 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint "' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com > From: Thomas Larkin > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin >, > Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 > /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. 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This works but there are three share points on this server, = and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, says server = does not exist or spits out a syntax error.  Now if I could get = this to work

   

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tell application "finder"

   

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end tell

   

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I would be golden!

   

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Any advice?  Any Novell wizards around here? = ; Also, how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally = don't use them?

   

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Thanks,



___________________________
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TIS Department
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tlarki at kckps.org
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>>> John Wetter <john_wetter at hopkins.k12.mn.us> 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>>= ;
    
 
 

 Tom,
=
From here:
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.= do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1
And then to:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007102802= 5409750&mode=print

You can run:
$ defaults write = com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES
= 6; defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn"= -bool YES

This is for older Novell servers that don’t have = Universal passwords set up on them (they really should, but I = doubt I need to tell you that).

For then doing the mounts, = we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?) that we use = to do the mounts and loads of tests.  If this is the case, I = can send them along off-list, let me know.  Or, for = opening single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to = write an app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use = it.  Below is sample code for this.

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mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x/sha= repoint"

(list disks) does not contain "VolumeName"<= font face=3D"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> then
   --test to see if volume is already = mounted then
   tell application "Finder"
 = 60;     mount volume "= ;afp://user:pa= ssword at server.domain.org/VolumeName"
   end tell
end if
--hide volume from desktops so it doesn’t get messed with
do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName"
do shell script "killall Finder"
tell application "System Events" to delay&nb= sp;2
tell application "Finder"
   open file = ;"Applications:MyApp&q= uot; of startup disk
end tell
     
 
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 Note in the above that the /usr/bin/S= etFile file is from the developer tools and is used to hide the volume = from the desktop.  It works much like the jamf mount –= hidden command but this doesn’t seem to hide it from finder like the = jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the = volume.  We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, = but don’t use it for testing.

-John


On 3/20/09 = 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tl= arki at kckps.org> wrote:

       
 


 

   

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 I thought about that, but I don't want all = 6,000 clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it = permanently mounted.  In my experience with this testing app = from last year is that it works best if you stagger connections and = testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one time. = 60;        
 
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 I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command = line like suggested and see if it makes a difference.   = 0;    
 


 

    

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 Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is = appreciated.        
 
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 >>> Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> = 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>>
Are you using Open Directory? You = can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of = the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do = it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script.

----------
Miles = A. Leacy IV

 Certified System Administrator
 = Certified Trainer
Certified Casper Administrator
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voice:= 1-347-277-7321
miles.leacy at them= acadmin.com
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 Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that = these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck = if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that = it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have = universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to = SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network = admins.          
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 So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file = share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if = there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an = old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older = DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering = hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't = know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working = is getting shorter and shorter.       &#= 160;  
 


 

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 I just want to create a generic account, grant it = access to this one particular file on a network share so the application = can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the = application launches and takes care of the rest.    = 60;     
 


 

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 It works if I do it manually, no problem. I = however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and = have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click = and it works.           


 

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 I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be = interrupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a = shell script.           


 

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 I think he's looking to have the user log in with = their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you = remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder = request that the user log in rather then the shell.

eric winkelhake<= br>mundocomww
office 312 220 1669
cell 312 504 5155



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osascript -e 'mount = volume "afp://usern= ame:pass at servername/sharepoint <afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint>= ; "'


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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 = -0500
To: Thomas= Larkin <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kck= ps.org <TLARKI.PO= -001.admin at kckps.org> <h= ttp://TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org> >, <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> <http://casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> = >
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 A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I = can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the = mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error:
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 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it = just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see = if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the = app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look = for the database file.
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 This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have = some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I = must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist = file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on = a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the = database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it = pointed out where to look.
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 I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in = interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I = can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for = about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the = app in question.
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 I have the app configured and it works when I do = everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click = solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other = thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to = this database file and then use that generic password in the script and = just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credential= s.
          
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--=__Part84AC0BA7.1__=-- From swood at integerdallas.com Thu Mar 26 11:34:48 2009 From: swood at integerdallas.com (Steve Wood) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:34:48 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, andapplaunching In-Reply-To: <49CB8367.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49CB8367.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <438f5a310903261134k4694c18fya25a5f8d92d27eb7@mail.gmail.com> The only difference I saw between what you were doing and what I was doing in my scripts was the use of 548 in yours. You were specifically calling out the AFP port number in yours. Have you tried it without that? Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integerdallas.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2009/3/26 Thomas Larkin > What is the difference between yours and mine, which is: > > tell application "finder" > > mount volume "*afp://user:password at x.x.x.x/sharepoint* > " > > end tell > > I mean isn't it essentially the same thing? > > >>> Yaniv Lugassy 03/26/09 1:21 PM >>> > > > I seem to have luck using this in applescript: > > mount volume ?afp://servername/sharepoint? as user name ?myusername? with > password ?mypassword? > > Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the > sharepoint name is case sensitive. > > > Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA > Apple Systems Engineer > > *Promedia Technology Services, Inc. > * > > Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 > > www.promedianj.com <*http://www.promedianj.com* > > > Fax: 973.253.5601 > > > > *Please call 973-774-1120 or e-mail > > *support at promedianj.com* <* > mailto:support at promedianj.com* > for technical > support and assistance from your Promedia support team* > *For all other calls, please contact our Main Number: 973-253-7600 > > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *Thomas Larkin > *Date: *Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500 > *To: *John Wetter , Casper List < > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> > *Subject: *Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and > applaunching > > > > > > Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man > pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. > > > > > > > > If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I > mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp > no dice. > > > > > > > > here is my apple script > > > > > > > > tell application "finder" > > > > > > > > mount volume "*afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548* > > > > " > > > > > > > > end tell > > > > > > > > This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add > the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out > a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work > > > > > > > > tell application "finder" > > > > > > > > mount volume "*afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint* > > > > " > > > > > > > > end tell > > > > > > > > I would be golden! > > > > > > > > Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper > fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> John Wetter 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> > > > > > Tom, > > From here: > http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1 > And then to: > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print > > You can run: > $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES > $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES > > This is for older Novell servers that don?t have Universal passwords set up > on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). > > For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is > NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the > case, I can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single > apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and > then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is > sample code for this. > > > > > > > > *if* > > > > > > > > (list disks) *does not* *contain* "VolumeName" *then > * --test to see if volume is already mounted then > *tell* application "Finder" > mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" > *end* *tell > end* *if > *--hide volume from desktops so it doesn?t get messed with > do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" > do shell script "killall Finder" > *tell* application "System Events" *to* delay 2 > *tell* application "Finder" > open file "Applications:MyApp" *of* startup disk > *end* *tell > * > > > > > > > Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer > tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like > the jamf mount ?hidden command but this doesn?t seem to hide it from finder > like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the > volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don?t use it > for testing. > > -John > > > On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the > share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my > experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you > stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at > one time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like > suggested and see if it makes a difference. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > tom > > > > > > > > >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> > Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via > Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top > of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. > > ---------- > Miles A. Leacy IV > > ? Certified System Administrator > ? Certified Trainer > Certified Casper Administrator > ---------- > voice: 1-347-277-7321 > miles.leacy at themacadmin.com > www.themacadmin.com > > > > > > > > > 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on > old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version > of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support > encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords > enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not > really a part of that project. Different network admins. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't > connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. > DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy > systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this > point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my > Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my > window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one > particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the > database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and > takes care of the rest. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end > user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under > the hood. That way they just click and it works. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end > user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > > > > >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM > >>> > > > > > > > > > I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so > actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. > that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. > > eric winkelhake > mundocomww > office 312 220 1669 > cell 312 504 5155 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Yaniv Lugassy > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > > > > > > > > > > > > 03/19/2009 05:23 PM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thomas Larkin > > > > > >, Thomas Larkin , < > casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> > > > > > > > > > > > > cc > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app > launching > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you > without any problems: > > osascript -e 'mount volume "*afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint* < > afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint> *"*' > > > > Yaniv Lugassy > *Promedia Technology Services, Inc. > *Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 > Fax: 973.253.5601 > www.promedianj.com <*http://www.promedianj.com > * *< > http://www.promedianj.com/> *> > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > *From: *Thomas Larkin <*tlarki at kckps.org* < > tlarki at kckps.org> * *> > *Date: *Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 > *To: *Thomas Larkin <*TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org* > * *>, > <*casper at list.jamfsoftware.com* < > casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> * *> > *Subject: *Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app > launching > > > > > > > > > > Well > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share > fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never > get it to work. I always get this error: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mkdir /Volumes/FS106 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mount_afp *afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10* < > afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10> > > > > > > <*mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10* > > > > > > > > *> > * > > > > > > > > > /Volumes/FS106 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a > script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is > mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have > location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > *tlarki at kckps.org* *< > http://tlarki at kckps.org> > *blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > >>> "Thomas Larkin" <*tlarki at kckps.org* < > tlarki at kckps.org> > > > > > * * > > > 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> > > > > > > > > > > Well > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell > servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in > using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account > to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and > have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the > app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it > always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI > based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user > authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but > I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they > don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user > account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic > password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the > user's actual credentials. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for any advice. > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > *tlarki at kckps.org* *< > http://tlarki at kckps.org> > *blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > *Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com* < > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com> * > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper* > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Disclaimer > The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary > and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. 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Registered Office: Warwick Building, Kensington Village, Avonmore > Road, London W14 8HQ. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > John Wetter > Technology Support Administrator > Educational Technology, Media & Information Services > Hopkins Public Schools > 952-988-5373 > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/bde8d148/attachment.htm From tlarki at kckps.org Thu Mar 26 11:41:19 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:41:19 -0500 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, andapplaunching In-Reply-To: <438f5a310903261134k4694c18fya25a5f8d92d27eb7@mail.gmail.com> References: <49CB792C.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <49CB8367.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> <438f5a310903261134k4694c18fya25a5f8d92d27eb7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <49CB85FF.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> OK, it seems that it is working now for some strange reason. I had sent the Novell admins a few emails and it works, so maybe they did something. for the record this is how I do it tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at fs106.kckps.k12.ks.us/FS106.VOL2" end tell I just need now to verify if it is mounted and then have it launch my application and I am done, any pointers on that. I have no freaking clue why mount_afp was such a pain and it still won't work. thanks >>> Steve Wood 03/26/09 1:34 PM >>> The only difference I saw between what you were doing and what I was doing in my scripts was the use of 548 in yours. You were specifically calling out the AFP port number in yours. Have you tried it without that? Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integerdallas.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2009/3/26 Thomas Larkin What is the difference between yours and mine, which is: tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x/sharepoint" end tell I mean isn't it essentially the same thing? >>> Yaniv Lugassy 03/26/09 1:21 PM >>> I seem to have luck using this in applescript: mount volume ?afp://servername/sharepoint? as user name ?myusername? with password ?mypassword? Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the sharepoint name is case sensitive. Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA Apple Systems Engineer Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 www.promedianj.com Fax: 973.253.5601 *Please call 973-774-1120 or e-mail support at promedianj.com for technical support and assistance from your Promedia support team* *For all other calls, please contact our Main Number: 973-253-7600 From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500 To: John Wetter , Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and applaunching Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I mount it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp no dice. here is my apple script tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548 " end tell This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out a syntax error. Now if I could get this to work tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint " end tell I would be golden! Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> John Wetter 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> Tom, From bogus@does.not.exist.com Thu Mar 5 04:39:10 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:39:10 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: ( http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1 ) And then to: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print ( http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print ) You can run: $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartexup on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the case, I can send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single apps that require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this. if (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then --test to see if volume is already mounted then tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" end tell end if --hide volume from desktops so it doesn???t get messed with do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" do shell script "killall Finder" tell application "System Events" to delay 2 tell application "Finder" open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk end tell Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like the jamf mount ???hidden command but this doesn???t seem to hide it from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don???t use it for testing. -John On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" wrote: I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experience with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one time. I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like suggested and see if it makes a difference. Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. tom >>> Miles Leacy 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. ---------- Miles A. Leacy IV ??? Certified System Administrator ??? Certified Trainer Certified Casper Administrator ---------- voice: 1-347-277-7321 miles.leacy at themacadmin.com www.themacadmin.com 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network admins. So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and takes care of the rest. It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> Eric Winkelhake 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. eric winkelhake mundocomww office 312 220 1669 cell 312 504 5155 Yaniv Lugassy Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/19/2009 05:23 PM To Thomas Larkin , Thomas Larkin , cc Subject Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you without any problems: osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint "' Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com > From: Thomas Larkin > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 To: Thomas Larkin >, > Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching Well A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this error: mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: mkdir /Volumes/FS106 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 > /Volumes/FS106 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. Any help would be appreciated ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 >>> "Thomas Larkin" > 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> Well This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to this database file and then use that generic password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credentials. Thanks for any advice. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, retention or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. 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OK, it seems that it is = working now for some strange reason.  I had sent the Novell admins a = few emails and it works, so maybe they did something.


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for the record this is how I = do it


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tell application "finder= "


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mount volume "afp://user:passwo= rd at fs106.kckps.k12.ks.us/FS106.VOL2"


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end tell


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I just need now to verify if = it is mounted and then have it launch my application and I am done, = any pointers on that.  I have no freaking clue why mount_afp was such = a pain and it still won't work.


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>>= > Steve Wood <swood at integerdallas.com> 03/26/09 1:34 PM >>&g= t;
The only difference I saw between what you were doing and what I was = doing in my scripts was the use of 548 in yours. You were specifically = calling out the AFP port number in yours. Have you tried it without = that?


Steve Wood
Director of IT
swood at integerdallas.com

The Integer = Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 |= ; Dallas, TX 75201
T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.69= 01 | C 940.312.2475


2009/3/26 Thomas Larkin


What is the difference = between yours and mine, which is:


tell application = "finder"


mount volume "afp://u= ser:password at x.x.x.x/sharepoint"


end tell =


I mean isn't it = essentially the same thing?

>>> Yaniv Lugassy = <ylugassy at p= romedianj.com> 03/26/09 1:21 PM >>>


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I seem to have luck using this in applescript:

mou= nt volume “afp://servername/sharepoint” as = user name “myusername” with password “mypa= ssword”

Also, just in case you miss it only because I = have in the past, the sharepoint name is case sensitive.

=


Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA
Apple Systems Engineer
=

Promedia Technology Services, Inc.

Office: 973.253.7600 x2308



*Please call 973-774-1120 or e-mail =

support at promedianj.com <mailto:support at promedianj.co= m> for technical support and = assistance from your Promedia support team*
*For all other calls, please contact our Main Number: = 973-253-7600



From: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org>
Date: Thu= 4; 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500
To: John Wetter <john_wetter at hopkins.k12= .mn.us>, Casper List <Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>
Subje= ct: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, = and applaunching



Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over = this. According the man pages and everything I google I am doing this = right but it is not working.





If I mount the share via the finder it works just = fine, no issues. If I mount it via apple script it works to an = extend, if I mount it via mount_afp no dice.





here is my apple script





tell application "finder"









end tell





This works but there are three share points on this = server, and if I add the share point it, it doesn't work, = says server does not exist or spits out a syntax error. Now if I could get = this to work





tell application "finder"









end tell





I would be golden!





Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? = Also, how well does casper fair with Apple scripts I normally = don't use them?





Thanks,



___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS = Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry: 913-449-7589
offic= e: 913-627-0351





>>> John Wetter <john_wetter= @hopkins.k12.mn.us> 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>>



Tom,

From here:
http://www= .novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId&#= 61;1
And then to:
http://www.mac= osxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print=

You can run:
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient= "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES
$ defaults write = com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES

= This is for older Novell servers that don’t have Universal passwords = set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you = that).

For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts = (I assume this is NWEA?) that we use to do the mounts and = loads of tests. If this is the case, I can send them along off-list,= ; let me know. Or, for opening single apps that require a mount = point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as an app = bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this.





if




(list disks) does not contain "VolumeName"<= font face=3D"Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> then
--test to see if volume is already = mounted then
tell application "Finder"
mount volume "afp:/= /user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName"
end tell
end if
--hide volume from desktops so it doesn’t get messed with
do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName"
do shell script "killall Finder"
tell application "System Events" to delay&nb= sp;2
tell application "Finder"
open file = ;"Applications:MyApp&q= uot; of startup disk
end tell





Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from = the developer tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It = works much like the jamf mount –hidden command but this = doesn’t seem to hide it from finder like the jamf one does (which= changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume. We use this to = launch our apps needing a volume, but don’t use it for testing.
-John


On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" = <tlarki at kckps.org<= /a>> wrote:














I thought about that, but I don't want all = 6,000 clients accessing the share at once and I also don't want it = permanently mounted. In my experience with this testing app from last year = is that it works best if you stagger connections and testing sessions to = say, no more than 400 clients at one time.

=













I am going to try to invoke apple script from the = command line like suggested and see if it makes a difference.

=













Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is = appreciated.













tom






>>> Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> = 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>>
Are you using Open Directory? You = can set a share as a login item via Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of = the applicable MCX settings off the top of my head, but if WGM can do = it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script.

----------
Miles = A. Leacy IV

 Certified System Administrator
 = Certified Trainer
Certified Casper Administrator
----------
voice:= 1-347-277-7321
miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
www.themacadmin.com <http://www.themacadmi= n.com>








2009/3/20 Thomas = Larkin



<tlarki at kckps.org>









=












Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is = that these shares are on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but = heck if I know what version of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough = that it does not support encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have = universal passwords enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to = SuSe but I am not really a part of that project. Different network = admins.
















So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the = file share just fine. I can't connect via command line. I don't = know if there is actually a difference. DNS is kind of weird because we = have an old DNS running on some legacy systems, which it is running an = older DNS for these file shares. At this point in time I am almost = considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac servers instead. I = don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to get = this working is getting shorter and shorter.

=
















I just want to create a generic account, grant = it access to this one particular file on a network share so the application= can write data to the database file. Once the file share is mounted the = application launches and takes care of the rest.

=
















It works if I do it manually, no problem. I = however, want to have the end user click one self service policy and = have all the work done for them under the hood. That way they just click = and it works.
















I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be = interrupted by the end user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a = shell script.











___________________________
Thomas Larkin
TIS = Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org
blackberry: 913-449-7589
offic= e: 913-627-0351









>>> Eric = Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at mundocomww.com> 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>>= ;








I think he's looking to have the = user log in with their creds, right?? so actually that = osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. that'll = make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell.

= eric winkelhake
mundocomww
office 312 220 1669
cell 312 504 = 5155
















=



Yaniv Lugassy <ylugassy at promedianj.com

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>











03/19/2009 05:23 PM















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cc






















Subject















Re: [Casper] need advice on self service = mount points, and app launching

























How about = something like this for the script, should do the mount for you = without any problems:

osascript -e = 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint&nbs= p;<afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint> "'



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Subject: Re: = [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app = launching



Well













A bit of progress, but not in the right = direction. I can mount the share fine via the finder, however when = using the mount_afp command I can never get it to work. I always get this = error:













mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno = is 118













So this is my method of doing this from the = terminal:













mkdir /Volumes/FS106


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/Volumes/FS106













I am looking at creating a generic user account so = it just auto maps via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to = see if that volume is mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch = the app, which will have location specific configuration for where to = look for the database file.













Any help would be appreciated


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>>> "Thomas Larkin" <= tlarki at kckps.org <tlark= i at kckps.org>




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 =



Well
















This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I = have some old Novell servers that do not support encrypted passwords, = so I must have users log in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a = plist file on each user account to allow this. Then I want them to click = once on a self service policy and have it map the network share that holds = the database files. Then in the app's preferences I already have it = pointed out where to look.
















I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it = in interactive mode it always asks for authentication in the terminal? = I can't seem to get a GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for = about 20 seconds while the user authenticates and then have it launch the = app in question.
















I have the app configured and it works when I do = everything manually, but I need to wrap this up in a one click = solution for the end user, so they don't get confused. My other = thought is to just create one generic user account that can have access to = this database file and then use that generic password in the script and = just have it mount under the hood with out the user's actual credential= s.
















Thanks for any advice.


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--=__Part7951F65F.2__=-- From ylugassy at promedianj.com Thu Mar 26 11:52:14 2009 From: ylugassy at promedianj.com (Yaniv Lugassy) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:52:14 -0400 Subject: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, andapplaunching In-Reply-To: <49CB85FF.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: You can do something like: if (exists ?sharepointname?) then do shell script ?open ?a /path/to/application? end if Yaniv Lugassy Promedia Technology Services, Inc. Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 Fax: 973.253.5601 www.promedianj.com From: Thomas Larkin Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:41:19 -0500 To: Steve Wood Cc: John Wetter , Casper List , Yaniv Lugassy Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, andapplaunching OK, it seems that it is working now for some strange reason. I had sent the Novell admins a few emails and it works, so maybe they did something. for the record this is how I do it tell application "finder" mount volume "afp://user:password at fs106.kckps.k12.ks.us/FS106.VOL2 " end tell I just need now to verify if it is mounted and then have it launch my application and I am done, any pointers on that. I have no freaking clue why mount_afp was such a pain and it still won't work. thanks >>> Steve Wood 03/26/09 1:34 PM >>> The only difference I saw between what you were doing and what I was doing in my scripts was the use of 548 in yours. You were specifically calling out the AFP port number in yours. Have you tried it without that? Steve Wood Director of IT swood at integerdallas.com The Integer Group | 1999 Bryan St. | Ste. 1700 | Dallas, TX 75201 T 214.758.6813 | F 214.758.6901 | C 940.312.2475 2009/3/26 Thomas Larkin > > > > What is the difference between yours and mine, which is: > > > > > > > tell application "finder" > > > > > > > mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x/sharepoint > " > > > > > > > end tell > > > > > > > I mean isn't it essentially the same thing? > >>>> >>> Yaniv Lugassy 03/26/09 1:21 PM >>> > > > > > > > > > > > I seem to have luck using this in applescript: > > mount volume ?afp://servername/sharepoint? as user name ?myusername? with > password ?mypassword? > > Also, just in case you miss it only because I have in the past, the sharepoint > name is case sensitive. > > > > > > > > Yaniv Lugassy, ACSA > Apple Systems Engineer > > > > > > Promedia Technology Services, Inc. > > > > > > Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 > > > > > > www.promedianj.com > > Fax: 973.253.5601 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > *Please call 973-774-1120 or e-mail > > > > > support at promedianj.com > > for technical > support and assistance from your Promedia support team* > *For all other calls, please contact our Main Number: 973-253-7600 > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Thomas Larkin > > Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:36 -0500 > To: John Wetter >, Casper List > > > Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and > applaunching > > > > > > > > > Ok, I am about to get a few more gray hairs over this. According the man > pages and everything I google I am doing this right but it is not working. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > If I mount the share via the finder it works just fine, no issues. If I mount > it via apple script it works to an extend, if I mount it via mount_afp no > dice. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > here is my apple script > > > > > > > > > > > > > > tell application "finder" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mount volume "afp://username:password at x.x.x.x:548 > > > > > " > > > > > > > > > > > > > > end tell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This works but there are three share points on this server, and if I add the > share point it, it doesn't work, says server does not exist or spits out a > syntax error. Now if I could get this to work > > > > > > > > > > > > > > tell application "finder" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mount volume "afp://user:password at x.x.x.x:548/sharepoint > > > > > " > > > > > > > > > > > > > > end tell > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I would be golden! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Any advice? Any Novell wizards around here? Also, how well does casper fair > with Apple scripts I normally don't use them? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > >>>> >>> John Wetter >>> > 03/20/09 12:28 PM >>> > > > > > Tom, > > From here: > http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3054602&sliceId=1 > And then to: > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071028025409750&mode=print > > You can run: > $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES > $ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" -bool YES > > This is for older Novell servers that don?t have Universal passwords set up on > them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that). > > For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?) > that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the case, I can > send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single apps that > require a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as > an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this. > > > > > > > > > > > > if > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > (list disks) does not contain "VolumeName" then > --test to see if volume is already mounted then > tell application "Finder" > mount volume "afp://user:password at server.domain.org/VolumeName" > end tell > end if > --hide volume from desktops so it doesn?t get messed with > do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/VolumeName" > do shell script "killall Finder" > tell application "System Events" to delay 2 > tell application "Finder" > open file "Applications:MyApp" of startup disk > end tell > > > > > > > > > > > > Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the developer tools > and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like the jamf > mount ?hidden command but this doesn?t seem to hide it from finder like the > jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can still see the volume. We > use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don?t use it for testing. > > -John > > > On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" > wrote: > > > > > > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing the share >> at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experience with >> this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger >> connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one >> time. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like >> suggested and see if it makes a difference. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for everyone's input and help, it is appreciated. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> tom >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>>>> >>> Miles Leacy >>>> > 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>> >> Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via >> Workgroup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of >> my head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script. >> >> ---------- >> Miles A. Leacy IV >> >> ? Certified System Administrator >> ? Certified Trainer >> Certified Casper Administrator >> ---------- >> voice: 1-347-277-7321 >> miles.leacy at themacadmin.com >> www.themacadmin.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> 2009/3/20 Thomas Larkin >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares are on >>> old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what version >>> of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not support >>> encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords >>> enabled and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not >>> really a part of that project. Different network admins. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can't >>> connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. >>> DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy >>> systems, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this >>> point in time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my >>> Mac servers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my >>> window to get this working is getting shorter and shorter. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one >>> particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the >>> database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and >>> takes care of the rest. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the end >>> user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them under >>> the hood. That way they just click and it works. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the end >>> user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ___________________________ >>> Thomas Larkin >>> TIS Department >>> KCKPS USD500 >>> tlarki at kckps.org >>> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >>> office: 913-627-0351 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>>> >>> Eric Winkelhake >>>>> > 03/19/09 5:29 PM >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I think he's looking to have the user log in with their creds, right?? so >>> actually that osascript works if you remove the user name and password part. >>> that'll make the finder request that the user log in rather then the shell. >>> >>> eric winkelhake >>> mundocomww >>> office 312 220 1669 >>> cell 312 504 5155 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yaniv Lugassy >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 03/19/2009 05:23 PM >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> To >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thomas Larkin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >, Thomas Larkin >>> >, >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> cc >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Subject >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launching >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> How about something like this for the script, should do the mount for you >>> without any problems: >>> >>> osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint >>> "' >>> >>> >>> >>> Yaniv Lugassy >>> Promedia Technology Services, Inc. >>> Office: 973.253.7600 x2308 >>> Fax: 973.253.5601 >>> www.promedianj.com >>> >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: Thomas Larkin >>> > > >>> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500 >>> To: Thomas Larkin >> >> > >>> >, >> >> > >>> > >>> Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app >>> launching >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Well >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the share >>> fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can never >>> get it to work. I always get this error: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> So this is my method of doing this from the terminal: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> mkdir /Volumes/FS106 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> /Volumes/FS106 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps via a >>> script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is >>> mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have >>> location specific configuration for where to look for the database file. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Any help would be appreciated >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ___________________________ >>> Thomas Larkin >>> TIS Department >>> KCKPS USD500 >>> tlarki at kckps.org >> > >>> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >>> office: 913-627-0351 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>>> >>> "Thomas Larkin" >>>>>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> > 03/19/09 11:28 AM >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Well >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novell >>> servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log in >>> using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user account >>> to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and >>> have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the >>> app's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mode it >>> always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a GUI >>> based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the user >>> authenticates and then have it launch the app in question. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually, but I >>> need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so they don't >>> get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user account >>> that can have access to this database file and then use that generic >>> password in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the >>> user's actual credentials. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for any advice. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ___________________________ >>> Thomas Larkin >>> TIS Department >>> KCKPS USD500 >>> tlarki at kckps.org >> > >>> blackberry: 913-449-7589 >>> office: 913-627-0351 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Casper mailing list >>> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> > >>> >>> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper________________________ >>> _______________________ >>> Casper mailing list >>> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Disclaimer >>> The information in this email and any attachments may contain proprietary >>> and confidential information that is intended for the addressee(s) only. 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And then to:
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You can run:
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow"= -bool YES
$ defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_warn" = -bool YES

This is for older Novell servers that don’t have Universal passwords = set up on them (they really should, but I doubt I need to tell you that).
For then doing the mounts, we have a set of scripts (I assume this is NWEA?= ) that we use to do the mounts and loads of tests. If this is the case, I ca= n send them along off-list, let me know. Or, for opening single apps that re= quire a mount point, I use script editor to write an app and then save it as= an app bundle so we can brand it and use it. Below is sample code for this.=




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--hide volume from= desktops so it doesn’t get messed with
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 Note in the above that the /usr/bin/SetFile file is from the develope= r tools and is used to hide the volume from the desktop. It works much like = the jamf mount –hidden command but this doesn’t seem to hide it = from finder like the jamf one does (which changed in 6) so that apps can sti= ll see the volume. We use this to launch our apps needing a volume, but don&= #8217;t use it for testing.

-John


On 3/20/09 11:26 AM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org <http://tlarki@= kckps.org> > wrote:




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 I thought about that, but I don't want all 6,000 clients accessing th= e share at once and I also don't want it permanently mounted. In my experien= ce with this testing app from last year is that it works best if you stagger= connections and testing sessions to say, no more than 400 clients at one ti= me.

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 I am going to try to invoke apple script from the command line like s= uggested and see if it makes a difference.

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 >>> Miles Leacy <mi= les.leacy at themacadmin.com <http://miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> > 03/20/09 11:21 AM >>= ;>
Are you using Open Directory? You can set a share as a login item via Workg= roup Manager. I'm not sure of the applicable MCX settings off the top of my = head, but if WGM can do it, you can push the MCX via a dscl script.

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 Still no dice. The problem I think I am having is that these shares a= re on old Netware 6.5 servers and 6.5 supports AFP but heck if I know what v= ersion of AFP it is. I do know that it is old enough that it does not suppor= t encrypted passwords. If I recall you need to have universal passwords enab= led and well the Novell side is being migrated to SuSe but I am not really a= part of that project. Different network admins.

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 So, I can hit cmd + K and connect to the file share just fine. I can'= t connect via command line. I don't know if there is actually a difference. = DNS is kind of weird because we have an old DNS running on some legacy syste= ms, which it is running an older DNS for these file shares. At this point in= time I am almost considering hosting the database file on one of my Mac ser= vers instead. I don't know how well that will fare though, and my window to = get this working is getting shorter and shorter.

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 I just want to create a generic account, grant it access to this one = particular file on a network share so the application can write data to the = database file. Once the file share is mounted the application launches and t= akes care of the rest.

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 It works if I do it manually, no problem. I however, want to have the= end user click one self service policy and have all the work done for them = under the hood. That way they just click and it works.

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 I was looking at Apple Scripts but those can be interrupted by the en= d user. I'd rather it work under the hood via a shell script.

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 Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and app launch= ing

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 How about something like this for the script, should do the mou= nt for you without any problems:

osascript -e 'mount volume "afp://username:pass at servername/sharepoint= <afp://usern= ame:pass at servername/sharepoint> "'



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From: Thomas Larkin <tlarki at kckps.org <http://tlarki at kckps.org>  <tl= arki at kckps.org <http://tlarki at kckps= .org> > <http://tlarki at kckps.org>= >
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:04:32 -0500
To: Thomas Larkin <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org <http://TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org>=  <TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps= .org <http://TLARKI.PO= -001.admin at kckps.org> > <ht= tp://TLARKI.PO-001.admin at kckps.org> >, <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com <http://casper at list.jamfsoftware.com>  = <casper at list.jamfsoftware.com = <http://casper at list.jamfsof= tware.com> > <http://casper@= list.jamfsoftware.com> >
Subject: Re: [Casper] need advice on self service mount points, and = app launching






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 A bit of progress, but not in the right direction. I can mount the sh= are fine via the finder, however when using the mount_afp command I can neve= r get it to work. I always get this error:


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 mount_afp: AFPMountURL returned error 22, errno is 118


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 So this is my method of doing this from the terminal:


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 mkdir /Volumes/FS106


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 mount_afp afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 <afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10>

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 <mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10 <mailto:afp://user:password at 10.10.10.10&= gt;  <mailto:afp://= user:password at 10.10.10.10>




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 /Volumes/FS106


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 I am looking at creating a generic user account so it just auto maps = via a script and possibly loop it so that is checks to see if that volume is= mounted and then once it is mounted it will launch the app, which will have= location specific configuration for where to look for the database file.

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 Any help would be appreciated


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 This is a bit of a complicated debacle I am in. I have some old Novel= l servers that do not support encrypted passwords, so I must have users log = in using plain text. So I need to mass edit a plist file on each user accoun= t to allow this. Then I want them to click once on a self service policy and= have it map the network share that holds the database files. Then in the ap= p's preferences I already have it pointed out where to look.


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 I looked at the mount_afp command but when I run it in interactive mo= de it always asks for authentication in the terminal? I can't seem to get a = GUI based dialog box. I also need it to wait for about 20 seconds while the = user authenticates and then have it launch the app in question.


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 I have the app configured and it works when I do everything manually,= but I need to wrap this up in a one click solution for the end user, so the= y don't get confused. My other thought is to just create one generic user ac= count that can have access to this database file and then use that generic p= assword in the script and just have it mount under the hood with out the use= r's actual credentials.


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 Thanks for any advice.


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 --B_3320923936_3203581-- From Jason.Weber at district196.org Thu Mar 26 12:57:08 2009 From: Jason.Weber at district196.org (Weber, Jason) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:57:08 -0500 Subject: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments In-Reply-To: <01E0F009-DCE1-47F7-8BA2-32E2F8B145DE@uclan.ac.uk> References: <47F0D00F-B21D-448D-A871-B631114485CE@westwind.ab.ca> <01E0F009-DCE1-47F7-8BA2-32E2F8B145DE@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: As Dusty has mentioned below, I have been working with the dual boot deployment for the past few weeks and thanks to the JAMF resource kit, as well as Mr. Larkins help I have been able to successfully deploy some test images. I haven?t used this in large scale yet, but as far as testing a couple machines out things seem to be coming together.. However, there are a few issues I would like to point out from my own experience.. So if anyone has any ideas or suggestions to streamline this, please let me know.. The first thing that I have noticed in talking to people and looking through others scripts is that it appears most people are still deploying Windows XP. While running the unix script to split partitions and lay the image down, I believe the script is only splitting the partition into a FAT32 partition. (Correct me if I?m wrong..). In digging through the script, I do not see anything that references a convert process from FAT32 to NTFS. But since we are trying to dual deploy Windows Vista, the Windows partition must be NTFS. The only way I have been able to do this is to run the Windows disk, and format the partition from FAT32 to NTFS. The other issue I have not been able to resolve is the issue with updating the MBR. With XP you can update the MBR file by pulling info from the dmadmin.exe file. All the scripts I have seen utilize this.. But again, Vista is different. Vista uses the BCD, instead of the boot.ini file that was used in previous versions of Windows.. As far as I can tell, it?s not as easy (or possible?) to update the BCD file other than from within Vista.. The main problem with that is you seem to lose the ability to change your Windows partition size at deployment. If I create the image on a 30.0GB partition, it must be deployed to a 30.0GB partition. If I do this, the image will work. If you partition the Windows drive at any other size than the original, it will error out upon boot. Basically I cut the parts referencing the MBR and boot.ini file creation out of my script. (also eliminates the need for the gptrefresh.c file) At this point, it is fairly well automated other than the ability to format the drive. From there it all depends on its usage.. If you will be using a simple Windows image not bound to AD, things will be fairly easy (since you can eliminate the need for Sysprep). In our environment we will need to bind or join our AD environment, therefore I will need to run sysprep so each machine gets a unique ID. This creates more work yet for me as Vista will have to run through a bit of automated setup during its first boot. Then we will need to manually rename each machine and join it to AD. Basically my workflow looks something like this.. 1.) Split single Mac partition into 2. (1-Mac Journaled HFS+ partition, and 1 MS-DOS FAT32 partition) ? (Automated script from within Casper) 2.) Run Vista Boot disk to convert the FAT32 partition to an NTFS partition. (Manual) 3.) Run my Casper config to lay down the Mac setup, then upon reboot start to load my Vista image. (Automated with Casper) 4.) After imaging I then boot into Vista, which will run it?s setup (requiring a couple more reboots..) - (Manual) 5.) Once setup is complete I rename the computer. - (Manual) 6.) Join to AD - (Manual) Not the ideal situation for mass deployment.. But it will work for the few machines we plan to do at the moment.. If anyone has any pointer on how to streamline this more, please let me know! I?m sure once a few dual-booted machines are out, the demand will go up. Jason From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Criss Myers Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 1:47 PM To: Dorey, Dustin Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments I sent jeff my scripts and article so he should be able to get going Dustin can u give mr ur coworkers email , I'd be interested on talking to him about issues I came across Cheers Criss On 25 Mar 2009, at 18:07, "Dorey, Dustin" wrote: Casper is able to deploy dual boot environments as well, my coworker here has been working on it and is currently out otherwise I?m sure he?d respond. And it doesn?t matter what imaging solution you use whether it?s Casper imaging or Deploy studio, certain things are going to be the same. You need to boot to something other than the drive your imaging so either way you?re netbooting or using a restore partition. You need to partition the drive, you need to format the partitions correctly (NTFS for the windows side I believe you use NTFSprog ) and lay down the images (configsJAMF has put together in the resource kit much of what you?ll need to do dual boot deployments, and Thomas Larkin also has some resources on his website, and knowing Thomas I?m sure he will respond to this. J One thing we?ve encountered is that it?s not too difficult to lay down a monolithic windows image in a dual boot deployment. But when you add in needing to do things like binding to AD etc? where UID is concerned it makes things a little bit more difficult. Then you really have to start messing with Sys Prep and stuff. Again my co-worker has been doing the work on developing that here so I don?t have the intimate knowledge he has, but I do know that there are several people on this list serv that have done it and do regularly deploy dual boot with Casper, so I?d check the archives. There has been lots of talk about deploy studio lately, and from everything I?ve seen it makes no sense to me to use it in a Casper environment. It has far less to offer and Casper can do anything it can do. With all the talk about deploy studio lately I asked a couple Apple Systems Engineers about it, and both of the Apple SE?s I asked about it in comparison to Casper Suite said not to bother with it if you have Casper available. It?s a step down. And you won?t have the great support that JAMF provides. It does make for a nice presentation and all since it is pretty, but in practice no matter what system you use to do the imaging you?re going to run into the same pitfalls that need to be overcome. Definitely check through the archives on this, check out the resource kit and I know Thomas has some good info, maybe my co-worker Jason will weigh in if he has time as he can speak with more authority on the matter, but I?m not sure when that might be. From our conversations about how his testing and development of the process for our needs here I know he said that having to Bind to AD increased the amount of setup. But I can?t say why since I?ve been keeping my nose out of it while he worked on it. Good luck. Dustin Dorey Technology Support Cluster Specialist Independant School District 196 Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools dustin.dorey at district196.org 651|423|7971 From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Clinton Blackmore Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:08 PM To: Jeff Strauss Cc: Casper List Subject: Re: [Casper] Dual-boot deployments My coworker recently returned from a week of training, and in a lab, they used DeployStudio ( http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html ) to create triple-boot machines! I gather that DeployStudio is the spiritual successor to NetRestore, but haven't used it myself. I'm not sure how you'd use it in conjunction with Casper Imaging. Clinton Blackmore On 23-Mar-09, at 12:07 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: Are there any strategies you all use to deploy dual-boot machines? I?d like to create a Boot Camp partition with Windows SP3 and all of our software to be created during Casper Imaging. Thanks for your continued help, everyone! Jeffrey A. Strauss Department of Educational Technology Systems Administrator Loyola High School of Los Angeles 1901 Venice Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90006 (213) 381-5121 x265 ? Apple Certified Support Professional ? Apple Certified Technical Coordinator Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/542cc65c/attachment.html From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Thu Mar 26 16:29:45 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:29:45 -0400 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) Message-ID: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/8a755743/attachment.html From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 26 16:42:54 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:42:54 -0500 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> Im going to have Apple Software Updates available to end users from self service from my update server to control the updates they get. Usually avoid firmware updates and handle those with staff. It somewhat empowers them without giving them power. They decide when to do it before I force it at a later date . Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:28 PM, "John McLaughlin" > wrote: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/03ab14d7/attachment.htm From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Thu Mar 26 16:45:45 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:45:45 -0700 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> References: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> Message-ID: <83E69ADC-AA20-4B40-B10A-225763209B80@loyolahs.edu> I do the same thing as Craig and, as I imagine, most of the users on the list. Also, AFAIK, standard users will require admin credentials to install the software updates after they're downloaded. - J Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." > wrote: Im going to have Apple Software Updates available to end users from self service from my update server to control the updates they get. Usually avoid firmware updates and handle those with staff. It somewhat empowers them without giving them power. They decide when to do it before I force it at a later date . Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:28 PM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/10aeed30/attachment.html From pcummins at plc.wa.edu.au Thu Mar 26 16:59:03 2009 From: pcummins at plc.wa.edu.au (Philip Cummins) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:59:03 +0900 Subject: [Casper] SetHidden In-Reply-To: <49CB4555.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> References: <49CB4555.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> Message-ID: Hello, > Does anyone know how to find the SetHidden file on a Leopard install > disk or does anyone have a copy for leopard The new 10.5 discs use flattened packages to install so you can't browse the contents until they are expanded. Use /usr/sbin/pkgutil --expand to expand them. In this case: /usr/sbin/pkgutil /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/System/ Installation/Packages/OSInstall.pkg ~/Desktop/OSInstall Should do the job, the SetHidden is in Scripts/Tools along with hidden_MacOS9 in just Scripts. Then: ./SetHidden And restart (seems to need this to set symbolic links to hide). Philip -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090327/eb1f677f/attachment.htm From ERNSTCS at uwec.edu Thu Mar 26 17:04:07 2009 From: ERNSTCS at uwec.edu (Ernst, Craig S.) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:04:07 -0500 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <83E69ADC-AA20-4B40-B10A-225763209B80@loyolahs.edu> References: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> <83E69ADC-AA20-4B40-B10A-225763209B80@loyolahs.edu> Message-ID: <40434064-9BAD-4FC1-A74C-8C77C765B06B@uwec.edu> If your self service policy is set to install all available update ASUS should run as root and just install them in the background. Regular users should not have to interact to install unless it requires a reboot and you prompt for it at the end. Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:46 PM, "Jeff Strauss" > wrote: I do the same thing as Craig and, as I imagine, most of the users on the list. Also, AFAIK, standard users will require admin credentials to install the software updates after they're downloaded. - J Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote: Im going to have Apple Software Updates available to end users from self service from my update server to control the updates they get. Usually avoid firmware updates and handle those with staff. It somewhat empowers them without giving them power. They decide when to do it before I force it at a later date . Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:28 PM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/2a6e79d8/attachment.html From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Thu Mar 26 17:12:37 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:12:37 -0700 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <40434064-9BAD-4FC1-A74C-8C77C765B06B@uwec.edu> References: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> <83E69ADC-AA20-4B40-B10A-225763209B80@loyolahs.edu> <40434064-9BAD-4FC1-A74C-8C77C765B06B@uwec.edu> Message-ID: <6380CDB9-F6ED-4749-940F-6280E00816E6@loyolahs.edu> This is true; I was assuming an environment sans Casper. In a regular environment, standard users must authenticate with admin creds to install software updates. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:08 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." > wrote: If your self service policy is set to install all available update ASUS should run as root and just install them in the background. Regular users should not have to interact to install unless it requires a reboot and you prompt for it at the end. Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:46 PM, "Jeff Strauss" <jstrauss at loyolahs.edu> wrote: I do the same thing as Craig and, as I imagine, most of the users on the list. Also, AFAIK, standard users will require admin credentials to install the software updates after they're downloaded. - J Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote: Im going to have Apple Software Updates available to end users from self service from my update server to control the updates they get. Usually avoid firmware updates and handle those with staff. It somewhat empowers them without giving them power. They decide when to do it before I force it at a later date . Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:28 PM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/05487d6e/attachment.htm From jstrauss at loyolahs.edu Thu Mar 26 17:46:58 2009 From: jstrauss at loyolahs.edu (Jeff Strauss) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:46:58 -0700 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <40434064-9BAD-4FC1-A74C-8C77C765B06B@uwec.edu> References: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> <83E69ADC-AA20-4B40-B10A-225763209B80@loyolahs.edu> <40434064-9BAD-4FC1-A74C-8C77C765B06B@uwec.edu> Message-ID: <6380CDB9-F6ED-4749-940F-6280E00816E6@loyolahs.edu> This is true; I was assuming an environment sans Casper. In a regular environment, standard users must authenticate with admin creds to install software updates. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:08 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." > wrote: If your self service policy is set to install all available update ASUS should run as root and just install them in the background. Regular users should not have to interact to install unless it requires a reboot and you prompt for it at the end. Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:46 PM, "Jeff Strauss" <jstrauss at loyolahs.edu> wrote: I do the same thing as Craig and, as I imagine, most of the users on the list. Also, AFAIK, standard users will require admin credentials to install the software updates after they're downloaded. - J Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu> wrote: Im going to have Apple Software Updates available to end users from self service from my update server to control the updates they get. Usually avoid firmware updates and handle those with staff. It somewhat empowers them without giving them power. They decide when to do it before I force it at a later date . Craig Ernst UW-Eau Claire (715) 836-3639 Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:28 PM, "John McLaughlin" <John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/05487d6e/attachment.html From rharter at uwsp.edu Thu Mar 26 17:48:46 2009 From: rharter at uwsp.edu (Ryan Harter) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:48:46 -0500 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: <6380CDB9-F6ED-4749-940F-6280E00816E6@loyolahs.edu> References: <81067C80-C427-482C-A90F-A55983F78676@uwec.edu> <83E69ADC-AA20-4B40-B10A-225763209B80@loyolahs.edu> <40434064-9BAD-4FC1-A74C-8C77C765B06B@uwec.edu> <6380CDB9-F6ED-4749-940F-6280E00816E6@loyolahs.edu> Message-ID: I allow users to do this with a policy, but wanted to point out that we who are doing this have our own update servers, they aren't downloading them directly from Apple. I think this is important because, for example, the 10.5.5 update broke my Admit Mac package which handles AD binding. This is a huge not good, so I just disabled that update on my Software Update Server. Having your own server that you can control updates from is an important part of this. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu On Mar 26, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Jeff Strauss wrote: > This is true; I was assuming an environment sans Casper. In a > regular environment, standard users must authenticate with admin > creds to install software updates. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:08 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." > wrote: > >> If your self service policy is set to install all available update >> ASUS should run as root and just install them in the background. >> Regular users should not have to interact to install unless it >> requires a reboot and you prompt for it at the end. >> >> Craig Ernst >> UW-Eau Claire >> (715) 836-3639 >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:46 PM, "Jeff Strauss" >> wrote: >> >>> I do the same thing as Craig and, as I imagine, most of the users >>> on the list. Also, AFAIK, standard users will require admin >>> credentials to install the software updates after they're >>> downloaded. >>> >>> - J >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, "Ernst, Craig S." >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Im going to have Apple Software Updates available to end users >>>> from self service from my update server to control the updates >>>> they get. Usually avoid firmware updates and handle those with >>>> staff. >>>> >>>> It somewhat empowers them without giving them power. They decide >>>> when to do it before I force it at a later date >>>> . >>>> Craig Ernst >>>> UW-Eau Claire >>>> (715) 836-3639 >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:28 PM, "John McLaughlin" >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing >>>>> their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? >>>>> I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a >>>>> standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around >>>>> controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to >>>>> whether I should allow a standard user to download/install >>>>> Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you >>>>> allowing the standard users to download and install these >>>>> updates within Casper? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> John McLaughlin >>>>> Technical Support Specialist >>>>> Newton Public Schools >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Casper mailing list >>>>> Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com >>>>> http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper >>>> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090326/4dbf96ba/attachment.html From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Fri Mar 27 00:58:11 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:58:11 +0000 Subject: [Casper] (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49CC8713.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> I download the updates from apple then i install on my development box and test then i release to internal testing then i release to pilot testing then i deploy live The user has no input or interaction, i only install system, security, and java updates, i do not install firmware or application updates mid term Criss ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> Criss Myers Senior Customer Support Analyst (Mac Services) Apple Certified Technical Coordinator v10.5 LIS Business Support Team Library 301 University of Central Lancashire Preston PR1 2HE Ex 5054 01772 895054 >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:29 PM, in message , "John McLaughlin" wrote: I have what may seem a ridiculous question. Is anyone allowing their end users to download and install Apple Software Updates? I have users logging into AD on their machines and everyone is a standard user. The whole idea of Casper seems to revolve around controlled installation of software but I'm wondering as to whether I should allow a standard user to download/install Apple's sanctioned updates. My next question is, how are you allowing the standard users to download and install these updates within Casper? > > John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090327/1d67865c/attachment.htm From CMyers at uclan.ac.uk Fri Mar 27 04:24:26 2009 From: CMyers at uclan.ac.uk (Criss Myers) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:24:26 +0000 Subject: [Casper] Windows deployment Message-ID: <49CCB76A.BB96.0081.0@uclan.ac.uk> To those who have done a windows deployment with Casper 1. When you guys created your NTFS image what size partition did you create it on ? 2. When you deployed the image what size partition did you deploy it on ? 3. Did any of you create the partition on a larger partition size than you later deployed to? 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--=__Part2008A87A.0__=-- From jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu Fri Mar 27 05:45:29 2009 From: jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu (Nichols, Jared) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:45:29 -0400 Subject: [Casper] Xcode Message-ID: Hi- I asked awhile back if people had packaged up Xcode and were able to distribute it. I'm happy to report that I was able to package up Xcode 3.1.2, index it, and install through self service without any issues that I can tell. I used Composer 6 with the snapshot method. --- Jared F. Nichols Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations Information Services Department MIT Lincoln Laboratory 244 Wood Street Lexington, Massachusetts 02420 781.981.5436 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090327/11c63774/attachment.html From william.smith at merrillcorp.com Fri Mar 27 10:13:08 2009 From: william.smith at merrillcorp.com (Smith, William) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:13:08 -0500 Subject: [Casper] "Acrobat 10" installer and self-healing Message-ID: Thought folks here would appreciate this. I posted a comment on Adobe's Installer blog and received this response: >> William Smith writes: I'd like to hear something from Adobe about plans for >> Acrobat and their installer. On the Mac side, Acrobat seems to be a stepchild >> of Adobe's installer technology and I don't understand why. > > The Acrobat installers are actually completely separate from the suite > installers. Its more of an organizational issue than anything else. The > Acrobat installer and the Reader installer are completely different technology > and a completely different team. > > That said, the Acrobat installer for the next major Acrobat release plans to > be completely PKG for the Mac. In addition, the self-healing functionality > should be gone (that is the technology that tries to do further setup after > first launch.) They planned to get rid of self-healing in Acrobat 9 but > couldn't quite get to it. For the next version it is already removed so really > should ship without self-healing. -- bill William M. Smith, Technical Analyst MCS IT St. Paul, MN (651) 632-1492 From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Fri Mar 27 20:10:45 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:10:45 -0400 Subject: [Casper] GarageBand Loops.. Message-ID: I'd like to allow users to install GarageBand's Additional Instruments and Loops '08. I can't seem to create a Self Service policy for GarageBandExtraContent.pkg for users without resorting to utilizing SUS. There appears to be preflight and postflight install Perl scripts within the package that are not updating the GB registry. Has anyone had any luck with either getting this to work or recreating the package and updating the GB registry? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090327/3b297380/attachment.html From clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca Sat Mar 28 09:09:04 2009 From: clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca (clinton.blackmore) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:09:04 -0600 Subject: [Casper] GarageBand Loops.. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <97e9c9cea5824bde89b3db5ab6cafd0a@mail.westwind.ab.ca> I believe this will work for you; I'm not in a position to do a proper test. Go to software update on a machine with Casper Admin on it that does not have the Garageband update installed. Go to software update, be sure that the Garage Band Instruments And Apple Loops is the only item with a check mark in front of it, and, from the menu, choose Update -> Download only. When it is done, you will have a "~/Downloads/GarageBand Instruments and Apple Loops" folder, which in turn contains a "Packages" folder. This one only has one package (the iTunes update, for comparison, has four packages). You should be able to simply drag the "GarageBandExtraContent.pkg" file into Casper Admin and deploy it. I'd be interested to know if it works. I have deployed packages straight from other sources (esp. printer installers), and it usually works without a hitch -- the only problem you run into is when you have a special .pkg file that doesn't contain the files, but points to them. Such a .pkg is usually fairly small (<150 Kb), and you are most likely to run into it on an OS install disk. This garageband extra content package is 1.12 Gb, so there is every reason to think it'll work. The advantage of this over building a package is that it will have the correct pre- and post-install scripts with it. Cheers, Clinton Blackmore On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:10:45 -0400, "John McLaughlin" wrote: > I'd like to allow users to install GarageBand's Additional Instruments and > Loops '08. I can't seem to create a Self Service policy for > GarageBandExtraContent.pkg for users without resorting to utilizing SUS. > There appears to be preflight and postflight install Perl scripts within > the package that are not updating the GB registry. Has anyone had any > luck with either getting this to work or recreating the package and > updating the GB registry? > > > John McLaughlin > Technical Support Specialist > Newton Public Schools > > > From John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us Sat Mar 28 10:34:18 2009 From: John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us (John McLaughlin) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:34:18 -0400 Subject: [Casper] GarageBand Loops.. In-Reply-To: <97e9c9cea5824bde89b3db5ab6cafd0a@mail.westwind.ab.ca> References: <97e9c9cea5824bde89b3db5ab6cafd0a@mail.westwind.ab.ca> Message-ID: Thanks for all of your replies. I was able to extract the package from the dvd installer so that wasn't an issue. In looking within the package, you'll find both a preflight and postflight perl scripts that take care of the reindexing. I wasn't sure how to deal with this since it takes each argument as it installs and then I saw a shell script posted by Jeff Dyck on AFP548.com and he rescripted it into shell to use the built-in binary of Apple's to reindex the loops. Here is that code. #! /bin/sh Indexer="/Library/Receipts/GarageBand_Loops.pkg/Contents/Resources/ALPIndex.app/Contents/MacOS/ALPIndex" rm -rf /Library/Audio/Apple\ Loops\ Index/* $Indexer "/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/" $Indexer "/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for GarageBand/" clinton.blackmore <[ mailto:clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca ]clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca> writes: I believe this will work for you; I'm not in a position to do a proper test. Go to software update on a machine with Casper Admin on it that does not have the Garageband update installed. Go to software update, be sure that the Garag e Band Instruments And Apple Loops is the only item with a check mark in front of it, and, from the menu, choose Update -> Download only. When it is done, you will have a "~/Downloads/GarageBand Instruments and Apple Loops" folder, which in turn contains a "Packages" folder. This one only has one package (the iTunes update, for comparison, has four packages). You should be able to simply drag the "GarageBandExtraContent.pkg" file into Casper Admin and deploy it. I'd be interested to know if it works. &nbs p;I have deployed packages straight from other sources (esp. printer installers), and it usually works without a hitch -- the only problem you run into is when you have a special .pkg file that doesn't contain the files, but points to them. Such a .pkg is usually fairly small (<150 Kb), and you are most likely to run into it on an OS install disk. This garageband extra content package is 1.12 Gb, so there is every reason to think it'll work. The advantage of this over building a package is that it will have the correct pre- and post-install scripts with it. Cheers, Clinton Blackmore On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:10:45 -0400, "John McLaughlin" <[ mailto:John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us ]John_McLaughlin at newton.k12.ma.us> wrote: > I'd like to allow users to install Gara geBand's Additional Instruments and > Loops '08. I can't seem to create a Self Service policy for > GarageBandExtraContent.pkg for users without resorting to utilizing SUS. > There appears to be preflight and postflight install Perl scripts within > the package that are not updating the GB registry. Has anyone had any > luck with either getting this to work or recreating the package and > updating the GB registry? > > > John McLaughlin > Technical Support Specialist > Newton Public Schools > > > _______________________________________________ Casper mailing list [ mailto:Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com ]Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com [ http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ]http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090328/d2dcd504/attachment.html From sean.hansell at jwt.com Mon Mar 30 07:06:04 2009 From: sean.hansell at jwt.com (sean.hansell at jwt.com) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:06:04 -0400 Subject: [Casper] GarageBand Loops.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I just made a DMG package out of it with Composer. Its just sound files and receipts as far as I can tell. Nothing fancy that you absolutely have to use the pkg installer. -Sean "John McLaughlin" Sent by: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com 03/27/09 11:09 PM To "Casper List" cc Subject [Casper] GarageBand Loops.. I'd like to allow users to install GarageBand's Additional Instruments and Loops '08. I can't seem to create a Self Service policy for GarageBandExtraContent.pkg for users without resorting to utilizing SUS. There appears to be preflight and postflight install Perl scripts within the package that are not updating the GB registry. Has anyone had any luck with either getting this to work or recreating the package and updating the GB registry? John McLaughlin Technical Support Specialist Newton Public Schools_______________________________________________ Casper mailing list Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper

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The user doesn't experience any problems, or at least doesn't report them, and there don't appear from my testing to be any end user symptoms, but it gets really annoying when I'm trying to sift through my logs and this is all I see. The logs for each day are sometimes getting up over 10 megs per machine per day. Largest one is 25 megs of text in one day. Has anyone else noticed this? I'm not sure of the cause but it wouldn't surprise me given the track record with Microsoft and their Mac software. Ryan Harter UW - Stevens Point Workstation Developer 715.346.2716 Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090330/8af0aff5/attachment.html From ben.w.young at det.nsw.edu.au Mon Mar 30 21:49:02 2009 From: ben.w.young at det.nsw.edu.au (Ben W Young) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:49:02 +1100 Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We have this issue as well and have found that we are hitting the JSS to hard with Policies that run at startup. I have made some changes to the JSS as recommended below and will advise on the outcome. Regards, Ben W Young Technology Services Administrator On 27/03/09 3:06 AM, "Dorey, Dustin" wrote: > Well that was my thought at first too, except when it just happened yesterday, > and we are on spring break. Most of our client machines are off. > That being said we have only one scheduled task scoped to all of our computers > and randomized by 45 minutes with just under 5k clients. > We set that one up on our roll out and I haven?t messed with it since. Just > seems weird that it would still hang due to that even though most of the > clients are off and not reporting in anyway. > > I?ll try increasing the packet size again, not sure that I can change the > everyhour bit though since I don?t want to set it to report only one day a > week or something. And there are not any options in scheduled tasks to do > like every 3 hours and randomize by 2 hours or something. > > Thanks for the tips, > -Dusty- > > > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ernst, Craig S. > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:51 AM > To: Dorey, Dustin; Jason Halvorson; Casper List > Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS > > What and how often do you have scheduled tasks setup for, and how many clients > would hit any of those scheduled tasks at any given time. > > I?m wondering if your hitting your JSS too much with the clients. > > Craig E > > > On 3/26/09 10:44 AM, "Dorey, Dustin" wrote: > Casper Suite 6.01 > Web App memory set to just a tick under 2GB > Database Size: 1.7 G > Max Packet size set to 6MB > Tomcat Min. Memory 256; max 2048 > Server has 8Gb total > > > From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com > [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Jason Halvorson > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:12 AM > To: Casper List > Subject: Re: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS - Which version of JSS > > Which version of the JSS do you have? > > > Jason D. Halvorson > Analyst/Programmer > Workstation Support Services > Phone: 507-538-4225 > Email: halvorson.jason at mayo.edu > ____________________________ > Mayo Clinic > 200 First Street SW > Rochester, MN 55905 > www.mayoclinic.org > > > From: "Dorey, Dustin" > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:18:07 -0500 > To: Casper List > Subject: [Casper] Java freezing up JSS > > Hey has anyone else encountered an issue where every once in a while java > seems to eat up a bunch of available memory and then the JSS will stop > responding? If I go in and kill the java process it just restarts and > everything is good to go, but it?s kind of obnoxious, and very random. It > just happened here, and no one was actively using Casper. In fact we?re on > spring break so most of the computers that are in our policies and such are > shut off too. I had 0 connections to the casper share, and java was eating up > just over 2GB of Real Memory and I believe over 5GB of virtual. > > Thanks > -Dusty- > > Dustin Dorey > Technology Support Cluster Specialist > Independant School District 196 > Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public Schools > dustin.dorey at district196.org > 651|423|7971 > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090331/b2cd621d/attachment.html From tlarki at kckps.org Tue Mar 31 06:44:33 2009 From: tlarki at kckps.org (Thomas Larkin) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:44:33 -0500 Subject: [Casper] run command as current user via casper policy? Message-ID: <49D1D7F1.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> I want to send out a simple one line command to every client machine, but I want it to modify a file in the home directory. defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" -bool YES So, how do I wild card it or loop it to hit every home directory on a machine with out making it a log in hook or what not? Thanks, ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090331/de8db575/attachment.htm From clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca Tue Mar 31 07:13:50 2009 From: clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca (Clinton Blackmore) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:13:50 -0600 Subject: [Casper] run command as current user via casper policy? In-Reply-To: <49D1D7F1.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> References: <49D1D7F1.7141.0039.0@kckps.org> Message-ID: <2EA3F20A-BC99-45BA-A75E-A42B2A5ED287@westwind.ab.ca> I've attached and pasted FixOfficeDefaults.sh, which does just the sort of thing you are looking for. IIRC, I never did get it to show an error in the Casper logs (although you can see that it tries to); but, it does find the user and run defaults for them. Cheers, Clinton Blackmore #!/bin/bash # Applies fixes to MS office so previous formats are used by default # Based on http://managingosx.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/managing-office-2008/ USERNAME=$3 if [ "$USERNAME" == "" ] ; then # script not called at login; find out who is using the computer USERNAME=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'` fi if [ "$USERNAME" == "" ] ; then echo "No one is using the computer; can not set the preference." 1>&2 exit 1 else echo "Fixing Office defaults for $USERNAME" su $USERNAME -c 'defaults write com.microsoft.autoupdate2 HowToCheck "Manual"' #defaults write com.microsoft.office "2008\\FirstRun\ \SetupAssistCompleted" -int 1 su $USERNAME -c 'defaults write com.microsoft.Word "2008\\Default Save \\Default Format" "Doc97"' su $USERNAME -c 'defaults write com.microsoft.Excel "2008\\Default Save\\Default Format" -int 57' su $USERNAME -c 'defaults write com.microsoft.Powerpoint "2008\ \Default Save\\Default Save\\Default Format" "Microsoft PowerPoint 98 Presentation"' echo "Done." fi exit 0 On 31-Mar-09, at 7:44 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote: > I want to send out a simple one line command to every client > machine, but I want it to modify a file in the home directory. > > defaults write com.apple.AppleShareClient "afp_cleartext_allow" - > bool YES > > So, how do I wild card it or loop it to hit every home directory on > a machine with out making it a log in hook or what not? > > Thanks, > > ___________________________ > Thomas Larkin > TIS Department > KCKPS USD500 > tlarki at kckps.org > blackberry: 913-449-7589 > office: 913-627-0351 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Casper mailing list > Casper at list.jamfsoftware.com > http://list.jamfsoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/casper This email has been scanned by Barracuda Network's Anti-Virus and Spam Firewall. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Looks very promising. http://bigmaconcampus.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/wireless-installer-for-the-masses/ I guess there was a lack of API support form the command line to insert keychains but with a little creative scripting and using apple script it can be done. ___________________________ Thomas Larkin TIS Department KCKPS USD500 tlarki at kckps.org blackberry: 913-449-7589 office: 913-627-0351 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.jamfsoftware.com/pipermail/casper/attachments/20090331/55ff6f80/attachment.htm From smith.jonathan at gene.com Tue Mar 31 15:50:48 2009 From: smith.jonathan at gene.com (Jonathan Smith) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:50:48 -0700 Subject: [Casper] Inventory Music and Video Files Message-ID: <462d1b830903311550g1bd6ce24oe1594abb415390fd@mail.gmail.com> Hey All- I am trying to figure out how much music and video files users have taking up space on on their hard drives throughout the enterprise. 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